By Scott Jaschik. Experiment in California suggests that the right kind of outreach can increase the participation of low-income students in aid programs. More...

By Scott Jaschik. "State of College Admission" finds colleges focus more on academics than personal characteristics and value first-generation status over race/ethnicity. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Mary Baldwin University last week shut down an art exhibit after some students said that the art was racist. The artists involved say their art wasn't racist at all -- but has been misunderstood. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A year after revelation that university's business school lied for years about how it used aid to build its class, a new approach is announced. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Two men were shot, one of them fatally, after a homecoming event Friday night at Voorhees College, in South Carolina. A statement from the college said that the men were not affiliated with the college. The campus has been placed on lockdown. More...

By Scott Jaschik. At least 12 people were shot and killed at a bar in Ventura County in Southern California Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times reported. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Mathematics scholar turned college president discusses his new book on problem solving. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Tokyo Medical University has offered spots to 101 women who were discriminated against when they applied, The Washington Post reported. The women were rejected during a period in which the university lowered the scores of women on entrance exams to assure that a majority of new students each year would be men. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Southern California campuses shaken by attack in bar full on "college night." 2 students and recent graduate are among those killed. Plus links to background on some of the many other mass shootings with victims tied to academe. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Many students at Davidson College have been alarmed by the release by an activist group of racist and anti-Semitic social media posts that the group linked to students at the college, The Charlotte Observer reported. The posts praised Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan. More...