By Scott Jaschik. Survey suggests students aren’t the only ones who may have difficulty with free expression on campus. It turns out the public -- across party lines -- is conflicted as well. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Science sponsors an annual "Dance Your Ph.D." contest to highlight research and the importance of communicating findings in ways to help non-specialists understand them. Below is the video of this year's winner, Nancy Scherich of the University of California, Santa Barbara. She studies  topology, the study of geometry in which shape and size don’t matter. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Many educators talk about the need for elite colleges to recruit and graduate more students from disadvantaged backgrounds. More...

By Scott Jaschik. One college's path to recruiting students from families whose home equity makes them technically wealthy, but whose bank accounts suggest otherwise. More...

By Scott Jaschik. On Monday, with Wednesday's deadline for many college early decision programs looming, the Common Application experienced technical problems. Many of those trying to submit applications experienced long delays, and some received error messages. The same was true for many counselors and teachers trying to submit recommendations. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A new poll of Californians by the Public Policy Institute of California reveals significant racial gaps in how people in the state view the importance of higher education. Two-thirds (67 percent) of Latinos said that college today is necessary. A little more than half of Asian-Americans (54 percent) and African-Americans (51 percent) agreed. Among white people, the figure was only 35 percent. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of Hartford expelled a student, and local police charged her with criminal mischief, amid reports over how she had treated her roommate, The New York Times reported. The student who was arrested is white and her former roommate is black. More...

By Scott Jaschik. In physics, male faculty members earn about 6 percent more than do female faculty members, according to a study by Physics Today. The gap is significantly larger in raw numbers, but the 6 percent figure is after researchers controlled for age, postdoctoral experience and sector of employment. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A new study in the journal PLOS ONE finds that female students may be disadvantaged by high-stakes tests. The study looked at performance in an introductory biology course and found that women performed worse on average than did men in tests in the course. But the study also found that the women outperformed men in laboratory work and written assignments, suggesting that the tests may not be capturing the knowledge of women as well as other forms of assessment. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. National Park Service awarded -- and then revoked -- a $98,000 grant to a project led by a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, to study and "memorialize" the history of the Black Panther Party in the Bay Area, where the group had its greatest influence, the Bay Area News Group reported. More...