The country’s small, private liberal arts colleges are speaking out about what they want from the Senate’s anticipated take on a revised college endowment tax.

The proposed increase would be less than what House Republicans want to see, but it’s still a blow for colleges that have lobbied against the plan. The Senate Committee on Finance is proposing to raise the endowment tax on private colleges and universities, but not to the extent the recently passed bill in the House calls for, according to a draft plan released Monday.

Dr. Elizabeth "Ellie" Erickson uses her position as a pediatrician to help nurture bonds between parents and children through reading.

First Bank's CFO and COO took unique paths to leadership, from law and Secret Service to roles in North Carolina's fourth-largest bank.

The university has largely complied with the administration’s demands, but has adjusted them in meaningful ways. One department offers a window into that effort.

The technology’s ability to read and summarize text is already making it a useful tool for scholarship. How will it change the stories we tell about the past?

The academy had argued for years that a diverse officer corps was essential to strong troop morale and national security.

The White House and Texas GOP imitate the left’s ‘sue and settle’ strategy to punish young adults brought to the U.S. illegally as children.

The radical-left monopoly is a threat to America’s democracy, institutions and national well-being.

The Trump administration’s cuts were illegal and discriminatory, a federal judge said Monday.

Learn more about the fallout from undercover, anti-DEI videos featuring UNC System campus employees in The N&O’s higher ed newsletter.

Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era. In Melissa Ryckman’s world history survey, an introductory class that consists mostly of non–history majors, she asks her students to complete a brief 100-word assignment every Friday based on what they learned over the previous week. The questions are not based on rote memorization but rather ask students to think critically about the material, exploring, for example, whether they would rather be hunter-gatherers or farmers. It’s an attempt to get students both to engage with the lessons—and to avoid ChatGPT.

At the University of Colorado at Boulder, athletics gets all the attention — and funding.