Universities’ purpose must once again be to nurture the best minds, not to engineer social utopias.

The university must find a new president and address rifts among faculty, students and donors.

Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday, becoming the shortest-tenured president in the university’s history.

Amid plagiarism allegations and a backlash to campus antisemitism, Claudine Gay became an avatar for broader criticisms of academia.

Maybe this is what being in a megachurch or a Trump rally feels like to true believers.

The war on colleges and universities is a war on left-wing and at times radical ideas that can thrive on campuses, unlike most institutions in American life.

After a frustrating year of delays, the new federal aid application launched Dec. 30. But maintenance pauses, glitches and other obstacles have led to a rocky start. The Education Department rang in the new year by finally releasing a long-awaited new version of its application for federal student aid—sort of.

The tenure of Claudine Gay, the university’s first Black leader, was cut short by a raft of plagiarism allegations following a much-criticized appearance before Congress.