Davidson College’s Brenda Flanagan spent a year working as a nanny for Simone, who inspired her interest in the civil rights movement.

Would a drop in turnout swing the presidential race in a state both presidential candidates covet?

How exactly does language evolve and how do people shape it? On this episode, we talk with Molly Flaherty of Davidson College. She has studied the birth and evolution of a new language: Nicaraguan Sign Language. 

In a sign of the tumultuous state of American higher education, more interim presidents are being tasked with calming stormy campuses.

Today’s ‘anti-Zionism’ is hard to differentiate from the communist slogans I heard in my youth.

For U.S. colleges and universities, neutrality on the war in Gaza is perhaps the best path to credibility.

Charrise Lane wants to re-establish what would be the only active chapter of College Republicans at a historically Black college or university at Florida A&M University.

A professor at Dayton University taught students how to be more effective notetakers by creating visually interesting notebooks to take notes in, requiring more memory and attention. For the average professor, a student whose notebook is full of miscellaneous papers, magazine clippings, grocery lists, foil, dryer lint or playing cards doesn’t seem like an effective use of space. For Sarah Brashears, on the other hand, that student is more prepared to take notes for the week.

The former chair of Michigan State University’s Faculty Senate says the board violated his First Amendment rights when two trustees encouraged students to criticize him.