“The 272,” by Rachel L. Swarns, recounts the decision by the university’s early leaders to sell nearly 300 people enslaved on Jesuit-owned plantations in Maryland in 1838.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said that the cleaning service failed to properly train a janitor and is seeking $1 million in damages.

The justices are set to issue far-reaching opinions in a number of cases with major social implications this week.

Students and faculty members are fighting for more Asian American studies courses, programs and departments in U.S. colleges and universities.

The university’s decision to waive tuition for lower-income North and South Carolinians is officially about equity. But its potential as a recruitment tool for underserved students connects it to affirmative action’s uncertain fate. Duke University announced last week that it would offer full tuition grants starting this fall to students from North and South Carolina whose family income is less than $150,000.

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