By Ben Gose. There’s something about a nearly $35 billion endowment that just keeps Congress coming back. A decade ago, as lawmakers eyed legislation to require the richest colleges to spend more from their endowments, the Ivies and their counterparts bought time by voluntarily increasing financial aid for undergraduates. Then the financial crisis hit, the endowments sank in value, and the debate quieted down. More...

By Peter Schmidt. The Supreme Court’s proceedings resembled a debate over educational research more than a fight over constitutional principles as the justices heard oral arguments on Wednesday in a challenge to race-conscious admissions at the University of Texas at Austin. More...

By Beckie Supiano. For years, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has produced data-rich reports on the job market for college graduates with various majors and levels of attainment. More...

By Steve Kolowich. Student hunger and homelessness can be hard to notice, but Hattie Elmore sees them up close, all the time. More...

By Peter Schmidt. The Yik Yak comment was one of several last week that had the university’s minority students complaining of feeling harassed or endangered. Some of the posts appeared to be reactions to a debate over whether the university’s mascot, the Viking, was sufficiently racially inclusive. More...

By Andy Thomason. Recent mass shootings, on college campuses and off, combined with a wave of online threats of gun violence against universities, have sparked heated discussions about gun control and campus safety. More...

By Ellen Wexler. As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Abigail Noel Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the latest in a long line of cases to challenge race-conscious college admissions, protesters gathered outside. More...

By Sandhya Kambhampati. The pay of 32 private-college presidents topped $1 million in 2013, with the two longest-serving Ivy League leaders, Lee Bollinger, of Columbia University, and Amy Gutmann, of the University of Pennsylvania, earning the most, a Chronicle analysis has found. More...

By Dan Berrett. Which students pushed themselves academically, and at what kinds of institutions, features prominently in the report of this year’s National Survey of Student Engagement, known as Nessie. The results, released on Thursday, are either sobering or predictable, depending on your view of students and colleges. More...