The idea of a NCAA Division I college basketball team traveling abroad, and purposely leaving the basketballs behind, seems extraordinary.

With affirmative action banned, application essays ask about “life experience,” the one place in admissions where discussing race is still explicitly legal.

In addition to the new form, the federal government will expand eligibility for federal aid in the biggest overhaul in decades.

The University of North Carolina, meanwhile, has eagerly embraced the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action.

A number of university trustees, faculty and staff members are calling for more transparent financial data about their schools following a Wall Street Journal investigation that highlighted large spending increases at 50 state flagship universities.

Colleges and universities have started to end the practice of giving special consideration to the children of alumni. It’s the right move.

AI writing detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero suffer from false positives. Here’s the advice of academics, AI scientists and students on how to deal with it.

The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

The Purple Pantry offers rice, pasta and canned goods, just enough for students who have other pressing concerns. Also, the police department’s counterterrorism bureau has a new chief.

The flagship university is recommending eliminating 9 percent of its majors, all the foreign language programs and 7 percent of full-time faculty members. Financially beleaguered West Virginia University is proposing eliminating 9 percent of the majors and 7 percent of the full-time faculty members at the flagship Morgantown campus, including the entirety of the department of world languages, literatures and linguistics, the university announced Friday.

A survey by the American College Health Association says a majority of respondents are recommending that students be vaccinated, even as the federal public-health emergency has ended.