By Scott Jaschik. The Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University has announced that it is revoking an honor it gave Harvey Weinstein in 2014. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Pennsylvania State University Press on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Eisenbrauns, a small press that focuses on Near Eastern history, linguistics, archaeology, and biblical studies. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Northwest Nazarene University announced Monday that its teams would no longer be known as the Crusaders and would from now on be known as the Nighthawks. "The Board of Trustees acknowledged that a crusader was historically understood as one who is committed to a worthy cause," said a statement from the university. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Defending the liberal arts; call for testing flexibility for international applicants; foreign students and graduate STEM enrollment. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Should college applicants (who can afford it) spend thousands of dollars for coaching on what to write? Are those who take their money just doing a better (and less visible) job than are many parents. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Cornell's Black Students United group has pulled back from a controversial policy position -- part of a series of demands made to the New York private university's administration -- about the admission of black students. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Participants agree that campuses must be places for all views to be expressed. But some academic leaders also see this as time to change the narrative on higher education and to challenge the idea of students as “snowflakes.”
If college leaders had any hope that speaker disruptions and free speech disputes would be last semester's news, they have seen otherwise in the early weeks of this academic year. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A number of colleges in the mainland United States are offering assistance to students in Puerto Rico, many of whom have had their homes and campuses devastated by hurricanes. Tulane University is offering a tuition-free semester, provided students pay their regular tuition to their home institution in Puerto Rico. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A freshman at Texas Tech has been charged with fatally shooting a police officer at the university.
A statement from Texas Tech said that police officers brought the student, Hollis Daniels, to the police station for questioning after they found "evidence of drugs and drug paraphernalia" in his dormitory room. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Texas Southern University on Monday called off a lecture by a conservative state legislator amid protests of the event, The Dallas Morning News reported. The university said that the event was not properly registered. Organizers of the event disputed this. More...