The government shutdown is entering day 21.

The Trump administration is closing in on a deal with the University of Virginia, four months after government pressure forced the school’s previous president to resign.

Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if it was a mistake.

Small colleges secure the fraying social fabric that holds towns together.

Ian Cleary sent Facebook messages to Shannon Keeler six years after he sexually assaulted her when they were college students in Pennsylvania, prosecutors said.

Gift link: Schools are trying to attract a limited pool of higher-end families. High Point University is a blueprint.

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced? In front of a few dozen faculty members at a town hall–style meeting on Oct. 10, Angelo State University president Ronnie Hawkins said, repeatedly, that new university policies prohibiting discussion of transgender identity in class would not be written down.

The First Amendment does not forbid heckling.