Even before she knew where she would be going to college, Sarah Jane Baker spent a lot of time applying for institutional scholarships. That advance planning paid off when she got the news that she'd been awarded the Belk Scholarship at Davidson College in North Carolina, her No. 1 choice.

Issac Bailey has had to jump a lot of hurdles.

Watchdog report comes as president seeks to make political issue of campus intolerance

In the mid-1980s, linguists stumbled upon a kind of natural experiment on language creation — a sign language being used by deaf children in Managua that was only a few years old.

Chad Dorrill, a 19-year-old at Appalachian State, recovered from flulike symptoms but then developed neurological problems.

Students say that monitoring programs like Proctorio and ExamSoft discourage them in the moments they’re trying to prove themselves.

Even as faculty members are given more time to meet a deadline for tenure, many say they are getting less work done because of child care needs.

Some colleges are taking drastic steps to try to slow the spread of the coronavirus, pressing pause to salvage the rest of their fall term for face-to-face instruction and campus activities.

Applications to some top-tier M.B.A. programs are soaring this year after schools extended application deadlines and loosened their standardized testing requirements.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that cases had risen nationally among people 18 to 22 years old between Aug. 2 and Sept. 5.

A looming crisis hovers as major pockets of the schedule could be wiped out if COVID-19 guidelines don't change

An Appalachian State student has died with COVID-19, according to reports from his friends, former school system and travel basketball team.

‘The most telling and ominous finding is that students may be more directly responsible than administrators and professors for quelling speech.’

Wells Fargo’s CEO recently faced outrage for a memo noting “the unfortunate ­reality is that there is a very limited pool of black talent to ­recruit...

“This, in my opinion, is patently absurd and, frankly, disgusting. Racism has no place in true conservative thought,” a Winthrop professor said. 

Survey of undocumented college students finds high level of anxiety around finances and the students' legal status.

The University of Kentucky has seen 103 cases of COVID-19 among employees. What accounts for those numbers?

The pandemic flipped the script for admissions and enrollment. Here’s an up-close look at how one college adjusted.