The author of the new book ‘Attention and Alienation’ wonders if the online world can ever become a place where kindness and human flourishing are the prevailing ethos.

Michael Maggart, a high school friend of Anderson’s, has no training or aspirations to be an actor. The director keeps casting him anyway.

Productive disagreement is the flavor of the moment.

Leaders from Georgetown, the City University of New York and the University of California, Berkeley, will become the latest to testify about accusations of campus antisemitism.

At the very beginning of their professional lives, some young people have had their summer plans derailed by the Department of Government Efficiency.

The university plans to hold classes virtually this fall.

Learn more in The N&O’s higher ed newsletter about the latest developments in the UNC System’s push to establish a new accrediting agency with Florida.

Here's an unexpected prediction: With AI taking over more routine business and tech tasks, experts say the value of a liberal arts degree is set to rise.

The decision paves the way for President Trump to continue dismantling the agency, including moving career and technical education to the Labor Department. The Supreme Court gave Education Secretary Linda McMahon the go-ahead Monday to proceed in firing half the department’s staff and transferring certain responsibilities to other agencies.

The administration has turned our institutions’ traditional strengths into paralyzing weaknesses.