For most people, the new economics of higher ed make going to college a risky bet.

A surge of students with allergies and special diets is challenging meal services and changing the shape of the campus cafeteria.

Lauren Lassabe Shepherd says leaders of the political right learned lessons from the 1960s that still inform the movement today.

The total costs in the Philadelphia area are lower than national estimates but can still add up to more than $10,000 over four years.

When conservative leaders took over Florida’s only public liberal arts institution, Hampshire College officials knew they had to help. Now they’re welcoming the first cohort of New College defectors. AMHERST, Mass., Aug. 31—Move-in day for new students at Hampshire College dawned sunny and cool, catching some arrivals from the New College of Florida by surprise.  “My girlfriend’s mom set me up with a snow jacket. I had to put it on,” said Libby Harrity.

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a Black community to build a college. The college has been gobbling up the remaining houses ever since.