They are part of the reason less advantaged students get so much out of elite schools.

A new federal financial-aid formula will no longer take a family size into account.

Nichole Thompson went to college in Europe, and says the drinking culture, autonomy, and education system were the biggest differences from the US.

Young people are turning away from teaching as a job, citing the low pay and uncertainty over education. "People feel demotivated," one student said.

Scammers have been targeting students for years, but some universities are reporting recent upticks as perpetrators develop workarounds to campus safeguards. When Evan Fandrei got an email that appeared to be from a fellow California State University, Long Beach, student, he didn’t bat an eye. It wasn’t until he opened the message that he began to suspect it wasn’t as innocent as he’d initially assumed. “There were a couple things that threw me off—the way it was worded and the punctuation, spaces between commas and such. Really, really particular things,” said Fandrei, who has fallen victim to a phishing scam before, although not on his CSULB email account.

William McRaven reiterates his view about how hard it is to be a campus leader. But he warns that compromise is a feature, not a bug, of the job. ORLANDO, Fla.—Five years ago, as Admiral William H. McRaven was concluding his term as chancellor of the University of Texas system, his final appearance before the university’s Board of Regents included this memorable line: “The toughest job in the nation is the one of an academic or health institution president.”

Being Native American isn’t only a race; it’s a marker of tribal citizenship. Colleges must figure out how to consider Indigenous identity in a new era.