"Together they represent the promise of what our community can achieve when we invest in young leaders who are ready to listen, learn and lead."

Tonidandel '98 and Brown '99, owners of buzzy spots like Supperland and Lelulia Hall, talked to us about new PBS series “Fork & Hammer.”

The bill states that the Florida Legislature will hold back state funds "for any university or institution that fails to redesignate" a road after Kirk.

The latest tables, released Wednesday, show the U.S. was losing ground to global competitors before the Trump administration upended academic research funding. Even before U.S. universities lost billions of dollars in federal research funding and international students struggled to obtain visas, America’s dominance in research impact and global reputation was waning. According to the latest rankings from Times Higher Education, the U.S. has continued to cede influence to universities in Asia.

The student-debt crisis and rising college costs are some factors driving the trend among elite universities, but policy experts warn it isn’t a catch-all.