Davidson College is hosting a series of community events this week culminating in the inauguration of Doug Hicks as its 19th president on Friday. Waffle (cones) will be included.

The values that you care about most should inform your top college choices.

Here’s what they’d tell their high school selves.

For many anxious college applicants and their parents, a college ranking must mean something, so they let it mean almost everything.

The move comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across American sports. Potential new names include: “Ambassadors,” “Blue Fog,” “Revolutionaries” and “Sentinels.”

I was supposed to speak at Furman University. I decided to beg off rather than indulge an angry mob.

Amid growing concerns about mental health, some schools seek to ease the pressure on first-year students. Critics say this "ungrading" amounts to coddling and could set them up for failure.

Students at George Mason University are demanding the institution reverse its decision to host Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin as commencement speaker.

Study finds that nearly one in four high school seniors said they passed up, out of political concerns, a college they would have initially considered because of its state. The trend is evident among conservatives and liberals.

Are you tired of reading nearly annual predictions of a looming wave of colleges shutting down? Not nearly as tired as one Chronicle reporter.