Early voting begins Thursday, and in Charlotte, races for city council, school board and mayor are on the ballot along with the transit referendum. We look at those and the integrity and security of the vote.

It was the fifth school in a matter of days to refuse an offer of preferential funding treatment from the government, even as the White House has threatened schools that do not sign up.

At Arizona State University, residents pay about $500,000 in entrance fees to live on campus and take classes alongside undergraduates.

Nearly two dozen private colleges are offering an online tool that factors in need-based grants and scholarships to estimate students’ actual costs.

At a time of financial and enrollment uncertainty in higher education, Vanderbilt University, along with other schools, has forged ahead with expansion.

Shutting out China’s best minds will only push them into a homegrown Chinese research ecosystem that is eclipsing American universities.

A study finds that first-year female students who didn’t get their preferred class were less likely to graduate, among other effects

Politicization and tenure have corrupted the institution. We need an alternative.

Universities must rebuild public trust starting with viewpoint diversity.

The university administration says dropping the student publication’s print editions was a financial decision; student editors say the 158-year-old paper is being censored.

The administration is looking to shed workers and transfer some operations to other departments as it seeks to close the Education Department 

The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” The University of Virginia and Dartmouth College have become the latest higher ed institutions to publicly reject the Trump administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.” Now just three of the nine institutions that the federal government originally presented with the document have yet to announce whether they will sign.

The stakes are high. But the extraordinary politicization of foreign students — and of higher education, in general — has made colleges reluctant to talk about the consequences.