Officials said test-optional policies might have harmed students from lower-income families.

University officials say they cannot afford to maintain one of the largest herbariums in the United States. Researchers are urging Duke to reconsider.

The public university, the largest employer in the Tucson area, says it’s facing a $177 million shortfall. Critics worry that lower-tier workers and Arizona students will be hit hardest by efforts to cut back.

They want to hear a range of challenging views, but faculty and administrators are afraid to discipline a handful of disruptive radicals.

Choice of major, internships and getting the right first job after graduation are critical to career paths, new data show.

Between 1980 and 2023, the average price of college tuition, fees and room and board increased by 155%, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

A new report found that many recent graduates don’t land jobs that require a degree. More than half of recent four-year college graduates, 52 percent, are underemployed a year after they graduate, according to a new report from Strada Institute for the Future of Work and the Burning Glass Institute. A decade after graduation, 45 percent of them still don’t hold a job that requires a four-year degree.

Yale University is returning to a standardized-test requirement, following in the footsteps of Dartmouth and MIT. One reason: They say it helps identify underrepresented students who might otherwise get overlooked.