As I put pen to paper on what is my third open letter to the Winston-Salem community in this space, I am remembering my first column here during the first

A third of the students living in the dorms at the University of Idaho have not returned after the Thanksgiving break, as residents worry about their safety.

Relativism gets a bum rap, this veteran academic says. The pursuit of credentials and specialization was a lot more harmful.

The Advanced Placement class on African American Studies – the first new offering from the College Board since 2014 – comes amid new state laws restricting how historical racism is taught.

The pace of annual increases in tuition and fees has for the first time since the early 1980s slowed to a rate that’s well below inflation. Now some higher education institutions are starting to lower their prices.

Complaints from the law deans echo perennial criticisms of the U.S. News rankings. There is no sign yet that their revolt will spread to a more generalized boycott of U.S. News rankings of undergraduate and graduate programs.

Some think (and many hope) that the move of law schools away from the publication will prompt undergraduate colleges to do the same. But no new challenges have emerged on undergraduate rankings … thus far.

Two University of Pittsburgh students are facing charges for allegedly violating medical cadavers during an anatomy lab, according to CBS Pittsburgh. Sonel Jimenez and Amay Gupta are each being charged with one count of abuse of a corpse. Students reported Gupta for allegedly making inappropriate comments while sticking his fingers inside the chest of a male cadaver. Jimenez

Statements on racism and abortion have renewed a debate over institutional neutrality and free speech.