More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs.

The list includes some familiar names—and quite a few surprises among both private and public universities.

Project Kitty Hawk, UNC’s ambitious foray into online education, has slashed enrollment projections. Will the investment pay off?

Demonstrators met with the college president but the two parties could not come to an understanding, members of Students for Justice in Palestine said on social media. In the latest face-off between students and administrators over the war in Gaza, students at Smith College have been occupying the main administrative building on campus for almost a week, demanding the institution divest from weapons manufacturers that supply military machinery to Israel.

Colleges have to deal with buildings marred by violence. People have to deal with the trauma. A professor’s story illustrates that painful reality.