About 3,000 people sheltered on the university’s campus in Malibu, Calif., overnight on Monday. Some of them watched the flames through the windows of a library.

Schools are dipping into endowments and raising money to lure families earning upwards of six-figures

The arrests followed a Halloween party on campus at the college in Gaston County, WSOC-TV reported.

Accreditation is crucial to several facets of university operations, including students’ eligibility to receive financial aid from the federal government.

Backed by lawmakers and university leaders but opposed by hundreds of faculty, the initiative has hired professors with similar backgrounds—including a few who’ve expressed sharp political opinions. In 2021, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees hesitated for months to approve a tenured position for Nikole Hannah-Jones. The Chapel Hill alumna had won a Pulitzer Prize for her introductory essay to The New York Times Magazine’s “1619 Project,” but that work drew conservative opposition.

In 1994, a movie called PCU opened in theaters to little fanfare. But three decades on, the cult classic feels like an on-the-nose satire of the kinds of identity politics, liberal extremism, and right-wing intolerance that fuel many of today’s hottest disputes in higher education.