Claudine Gay’s resignation as Harvard president is adding to the wider debate in boardrooms over diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

Merit, itself, cannot be defined. That is why the concept is so useful for slippery slopes.

Academics have got to do a much better job of keeping it out of the ivory tower.

Republican lawmakers and their allies think they have fresh momentum to reverse what they deem to be the progressive takeover of American education. 

The former Harvard president’s defense reveals why elite educators have lost so much public respect.

Academia should have learned something from the bad example the GOP set when it circled the wagons around Trump.

Former Harvard President Claudine Gay was accused of plagiarism. Here is the scope of the allegations against Gay, and how they unfolded.

How high-school seniors have navigated the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling against affirmative action.

Professors who teach about the Middle East report increased interest in their spring courses—though not necessarily from the biggest activists on campus. When Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel catalyzed a contentious protest movement on college campuses across the country, Michelle Murray, an associate professor of political studies at Bard College in New York, and her colleagues wondered if there was a role they could

In the past year, two high-profile leaders lost their jobs over claims about their published work, raising questions about whether more can be done to catch red flags before they become a scandal.