For Brown University, posting the best investment return in the Ivy League added more than $2 billion to its endowment. It also thrust the school into an elite club: It reached the threshold for paying a federal tax on investment income.

White supremacists have been targeting Black schools and churches across America since their foundings.

As workplaces transformed by the pandemic negotiate a “new normal,” DealBook asked college seniors across the country what they hope it will look like.

New research found high rates of homelessness and financial instability among Black fathers in college. It builds on earlier findings that show Black fathers are dropping out of school at higher rates than any other student-parent group.

Appalled at efforts to limit what they can teach about race and other sensitive subjects, faculty leaders some prominent public universities have rallied behind resolutions to reaffirm academic freedom.

Wealthy universities are under pressure to use more of their dollars to increase access for the neediest students. Although nearly half of endowment spending funds financial aid, experts say elite institutions can dedicate more of their investment returns to boost racial and economic equity on their campuses.

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Texas lieutenant governor Dan Patrick threatens to end tenure over the teaching of critical race theory, further escalating the ongoing war on the teaching of CRT and other so-called divisive concepts in many states.

The tradition will probably survive. But it could look very different.