Generative AI can craft a polished admissions essay in seconds. Schools statewide are wrestling with how much to fight or welcome the new tech.

Story at a glance Most women still choose to change take their husband’s last name when they get married, while most men keep their own. The reason so few men change …

Teenagers around the country weigh in on the Supreme Court’s June ruling.

Competitive sports are in, gender-neutral bathrooms are out after Florida vowed to turn New College, a public school, into a bastion of conservatism.

President Joe Biden’s education chief says he’s open to using “whatever levers” are available — including federal money — to discourage colleges from giving preference to the children of alumni and donors

“There’s just too many variables to stop everything, but there are certain things you can put in place to be helpful,” one expert said.

America's private equity giants are turning student housing into a huge industry. But as rents reach new highs, students are getting shorted.

Shifts in methodology scrambled the usual hierarchy of U.S. News’s annual college rankings, prompting a fierce backlash from some higher ed leaders.  U.S. News & World Report released its annual rankings of undergraduate institutions Monday, prompting a familiar flurry of bragging and bemoaning by college leaders. 

The Classic Learning Test is accepted chiefly by small private religious institutions. Now 12 public universities in Florida do, too.