The National Weather Service has confirmed that an EF-0 tornado touched down in Iredell County Saturday morning.

As D.E.I. programs come under attack, a plan at the University of Virginia for “more diversity, less Confederacy” enraged some alumni, who started organizing against it.

Some of it amounts to marketing.

After a preview of the new rankings system, Yale and other universities raised a storm of objections. The formal list is now indefinitely delayed.

Schools control most information about financial aid, but more parents are fighting back. “It’s like playing poker with the devil,” one mother says.

Florida legislation would limit what colleges teach about race in general education courses and give college presidents tight control over hiring.

On the University of Florida campus in Gainesville, students and teachers worry about threats to education.

The trend comes even as overall enrollment numbers rise at some HBCUs. Howard, for example, has gained more than 3,000 students since 2016. But of those additional students just one of every six has been a man.

New book, Shortchanged, says the program hurts students and the values of the liberal arts. In the beginning of Shortchanged: How Advanced Placement Cheat Students, Annie Abrams recounts her experience teaching AP courses in a public high school in New York City. It was 2016. She had just finished earning a Ph.D. in American literature at New York University, and so she expected to have few problems with the material.

Virginia Tech aims to make treatment more accessible and relieve pressure on resident assistants, who have increasingly become first responders to students in crisis.