California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option. To get the word out, the state is re-branding the program as the "Promise Grant." More...
How college students understand free speech
Here’s the problem with suggesting that upsetting speech warrants “safe spaces,” or otherwise conflating mere words with physical assault: If speech is violence, then violence becomes a justifiable response to speech. More...
College debt far from a uniform burden
Tales of college graduates paralyzed by crippling student loan burdens are wildly exaggerated—in some corners of the country, like the West Coast. In New England, meanwhile, such horror stories are quite accurate. More...
Trump, and most black college presidents, absent from annual meeting
Every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter has pledged commitment to historically black colleges, or HBCUs.
And just about every year, HBCU leaders gather in Washington D.C., to lobby Congress and the White House. This year President Trump was not there to greet them, which was just as well because the meeting took place amid simmering frustration with the Trump administration. More...
What Ole Miss can teach universities about grappling with their pasts
Next month, students at the University of Oxford will return for their fall semester, known as the “Michaelmas” term—named after the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels—to a campus strewn with the sort of colonial- and slave-era tinder that has helped fuel the outrage and protests on university campuses across America. More...
Rosalind Franklin University breaks ground on new science park
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science celebrated the impending construction of its new Innovation and Research Park with a ceremonial groundbreaking on Sept. 8 attended by state and local officials, life science industry partners, and university faculty, alumni and supporters. More...
Most Montana college grads find jobs in state
Montana’s job market needs more college graduates in computer fields and automotive technology, and far fewer “general studies” majors. More...
Indiana, Purdue, Ball State universities facing lawsuits alleging racial bias
Despite higher education's reputation as a bastion of political correctness, Indiana universities are defending a host of lawsuits brought by black employees who say they were denied opportunities because of their race. More...
When community college is free
Does free community college work? An experiment in Chicago suggests that the answer is yes. More...
Colleges must not turn back the clock on efforts to combat sexual assault
When I was a student in the 1970s and 1980s, it was not uncommon for male professors to use their classroom authority to initiate sexual relations with their students. More...