Universities should be more like monasteries.

The University of Chicago president championed free speech.

‘Mr. Zimmer has his eye on the future of free speech in another, innovative way. As president of a university, he sees himself as a stakeholder in America’s high schools.’

Debates over deferments and debt relief raise similar questions about education and democracy.

In the weeks after George Floyd’s murder, college athletes joined the swaths of people pushing for justice and equality. Three years later, the aims of the groups they formed have largely shifted.

Schools around the United States await a Supreme Court decision due by the end of June that is expected to prohibit affirmative action student admissions policies nationwide.

Colonials, the moniker since 1926, is out.

A project to widen N.C. 73, which connects Denver and Huntersville, originally was planned for 2021. It’s now slated to begin in 2026.

Researchers from Indiana University found a link between getting students to think about belonging prior to their first year on campus and first-year full-time retention. A new report from Indiana University reveals that an intervention exercise for incoming students can promote feelings of belonging and retention during their time at the institution. The three-step intervention, called Social Belonging for College Students, exposes students to the commonality of student anxieties around attending college and promotes reflection in identifying their own fears. Researchers found the exercise promoted student persistence, course taking and sense of belonging, as well as first-year completion.

Community-college attendance, after seeing years of declines, is inching up.