A new sculpture at Davidson College, “With These Hands,” honors the enslaved people who built its campus, prompting reflection on the enduring impact of slavery and the need for ongoing reckoning.

The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.

Medicine shouldn’t be a career for the wealthy alone.

Unemployable college grads blame capitalism, but the real culprit is higher-ed subsidies.

College is broken, but young people need the space to become fully formed humans before locking into someone else’s agenda.

Over two centuries, American higher education has periodically remade itself. Time to do it again.

SNAP benefits for roughly 42 million people in the U.S. were cut off at the beginning of November due to the government shutdown.

In a hearing about cost transparency, lawmakers emphasized the need for more detailed, program-level information not only about the cost of college but also about student outcomes. After passing a sweeping higher ed overhaul in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Congress now has its sights set on reforming college cost transparency.

More instructors are teaching with it. Is it making their courses better or dragging the profession down?