An excerpt from Jeff Selingo's upcoming book: In the final ‘shaping’ of an incoming class, academic standards give way to other, more ambiguous factors. PDF here.
University president Lee C. Bollinger wrote in a letter addressed to students and faculty members that the dorm, Bard Hall, would be renamed this fall with one that "represents our University's
There is good reason why Indian students and their parents hanker for a higher education ‘abroad’, especially in institutions carrying the Ivy League and Oxbridge goldmark. Places such as Stanford or Harvard in the US,...
Fifty positive COVID-19 cases, or 100? Meeting 80 percent of quarantine capacity, or having more than 10 sick employees? Some colleges are publishing "triggers" that would lead them to consider closing; others refuse to boil decision making down to a few numbers.
Davidson College registers as the top-ranked school locally, and it ranks at No. 3 in North Carolina. The private liberal arts school in Davidson — about 20 miles north of Charlotte — lands high in the national ranking as well, placing at No. 47. It ranks as the third-best Christian college in America.
Davidson College says that a cluster of five baseball players has tested positive for COVID-19. In an email sent to the college community Friday evening, Davidson said that the five students are isolating “and while they are currently asymptomatic, their health is being monitored.” The email said that the transmission among the five students was…
Colleges nationwide continue to struggle with increasing coronavirus cases, the virus spreading seemingly unabated on some campuses in Georgia, Texas and Iowa.
Mayor Walt Maddox of Tuscaloosa, Ala., Mayor Donnie Tuck of Hampton, Va., and Mayor Bruce Teague of Iowa City, Iowa, on how they're trying to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
A Republican student group at Arizona State University is receiving backlash for donating money to the 17-year-old gunman who fatally shot two protesters in Wisconsin.
When it comes to their students testing positive for COVID-19, professors say they have a right to know and share the information how they deem appropriate. Colleges want to keep those cases close to the vest.