Virologist Dave Wessner explores what a gorilla having a case of Covid-19 tells us about the spread of the virus from humans to animals, and vice-versa.

Drag queens, including the groundbreaking Gottmik, explained the Emmy-winning show's influence and the boundaries it could still push.

The Chronicle is teaming up with Davidson College’s College Crisis Initiative, which has collected reopening models for nearly 3,000 institutions, to present a fuller view of the spring.

The leaders of the data team behind our college-reopening tracker assess the semester ahead.

Davidson agricultural students, nonprofit team up to feed those in need during pandemic

After being pulled over by police one too many times, Mbye Njie founded Legal Equalizer to sell an app able to help people in emergency situations, such as encounters with law enforcement or immigration authorities.

The University of California, Davis, is providing free testing, masks and quarantine housing to tens of thousands of people who live nearby.

U-Va. and Harvard are among a large bloc of schools that suspended admission testing requirements because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The steady stream of Latino students arriving on college campuses in recent years has been a bright spot in higher education, but some worry the pandemic could threaten those gains.

Dartmouth College says its reinstating five sports that it eliminated last year and will do an external review of the athletic department’s policies, practices, and governance, after being accused of not offering equal intercollegiate participation opportunities to women as compared to men

App State COVID costs more than $20 million as students move back into dorms

Many colleges and universities have figured out how to diagnose their populations and control outbreaks—and offer a vision for more normal life until the vaccine is available to all.

At schools known for ambition, not activism, students are calling for climate change to be at the heart of the curriculum, and telling the companies that recruit them to change their ways.

A new formula will no longer offer a break to many parents who have multiple children in college at the same time, experts say.

Education historian and advocate Diane Ravitch looks at the history and current use of these tests.

An expert calls for doubling the Pell Grant: "We risk squandering several decades of progress."

Wake Forest University has chosen Susan Wente, the provost at Vanderbilt University, as its next president and the first female to serve in the post.

You may be reading about record application totals, but they are largely going to the institutions that already have plenty. Other colleges are not doing well. Common App data point to declines from low-income students.