Also, the Helmsley Charitable Trust gave $17.6 million to back programs for homeless New Yorkers with serious health needs, and the new Adobe Film & TV Fund will award $6 million to help filmmakers from underrepresented backgrounds find careers in entertainment.

After affirmative action fell, students began rewriting their application essays to emphasize race. The moment led a reporter and former essay coach to reflect on the power of the personal statement.

In December, Florida’s education commissioner wrote that “sociology has been hijacked by left-wing activists.”

A growing number of colleges and universities are using deep underground pipes to heat and cool their buildings without burning fossil fuels.

After resignations at Harvard and Penn, a former university trustee and an alumni group are calling for the same at Cornell.

The wide-ranging College Cost Reduction Act suggests there’s an emerging bipartisan consensus on what needs fixing in higher education. House Republicans’ ambitious new plan to overhaul higher education would likely have a significant impact on colleges and universities. Should the College Cost Reduction Act pass and be signed into law, colleges would be on the hook for unpaid student loans. Graduates’ earnings would play a key role in the evaluation of programs, too, among other changes that its sponsors say would lower the cost of college.

Forty-five of the top public universities have seen a drop in their share of homegrown first-year students over the past two decades, a Chronicle analysis of new federal data shows.