Paige Pakenas went into lunch with Davidson College professor Tim Chartier not knowing what to expect. Pakenas, a Middletown native, scheduled the meeting with Chartier hoping to find some kind of direction for her honors thesis. She was a junior math major at Davidson at the time, and she wanted to tackle some kind of problem with real-world applications rather than something theoretical and ...

Davidson College ranks as the 10th best college in America and is the only North Carolina college in the top 50, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The Trump administration gave nine universities a set of terms to follow for better access to federal funds. At least one said it wanted to sign up, but some students wanted college officials to say no.

There seems to be no limit to the president’s odious attempts to control higher education.

Duke University kept a low profile. But it is the alma mater of Stephen Miller, a top Trump official who often criticized the school while he was a student.

In our increasingly digital world, online classes are here to stay. But there’s no substitute for being on campus.

Universities weigh whether to sign on to the president’s operating principles in exchange for a funding advantage.

Now they’ve become an American ritual.

Advocates condemned the proposal, which asked nine universities to overhaul admissions, hiring and speech policies and to suppress criticism of conservatives in exchange for more federal money. The Trump administration has asked nine universities to sign on to a proposed compact, mandating certain changes in exchange for preferential treatment on federal funding.

The agreement, reportedly sent to nine institutions, states that federal benefits would hinge on cooperation.