Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some American students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries.

Usher told Emory’s Class of 2025 a story about himself that he has rarely shared. Here is how late-night brainstorming, careful editing and last-minute riffing led to that moment.

Is using chatbots to help with class work dishonest?

Colleges should simply enforce their rules rather than try to screen out potential lawbreakers.

Cecilia Culver’s speech is the latest pro-Palestinian student activism this graduation season. This spring, VCU students saw their degrees withheld due to protests.

Columbia University acting President Claire Shipman was greeted with boos and chants of "free Mahmoud" as she took the lectern to speak at the school's graduation ceremony.

At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adjusting its hiring strategy for recent grads. “We have more and more conviction that we need people who majored in history, in English, and things that have nothing to do with finance or technology,” Goldstein said.

Summer bridge programs have long helped students from underrepresented backgrounds start their college journey. In the anti-DEI era, many institutions are quietly shifting focus. Ball State University runs a number of summer bridge programs to smooth the transition for incoming first-year students. One of them, Jump Start, is a five-year-old initiative designed to help first-generation and minority students acclimate to the unfamiliar academic and social environment of a college campus.

Even college leaders outside the immediate political fray say they’re constantly responding to policy changes and campus fears.