By Scott Jaschik. The City of Chicago has announced a new program in which students who receive scholarships from the city to cover the costs of associate degrees will earn those degrees in an academy set up at DePaul University. More...

By Scott Jaschik. LSU finds increased diversity with its first class using a new system. But not everyone is applauding the switch. More...

By Scott Jaschik. After report on abuse at school famous for sending low-income black students to top colleges, admissions officials engage in soul-searching. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Duke University's board on Saturday voted to remove Julian Carr's name from a campus building that houses the history department. The department and others had pushed for removal of the name because Carr, while a donor to the university, was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1900 on a white supremacist platform. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Temple professor lost his job as CNN commentator over speech he gave at United Nations. University says it is defending his right to free speech, but board chair's comments suggest institution is trying to find a way to punish him. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Admissions officers have become less likely than in recent years to check on the social media accounts of applicants, according to a new survey by Kaplan Test Prep. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Six Democratic senators have written to U.S. News & World Report asking it to change its methodology to put more focus on institutions that educate students from many socioeconomic backgrounds. The letter follows some tweaks in the methodology this year, changes that critics said did little to shift the system away from one that favors wealthy institutions that educate many wealthy students. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's board and chancellor on Monday unveiled a plan to return Silent Sam, a statue of a Confederate soldier, to campus. The statue would be housed in a new building that would cost more than $5 million to construct and $800,000 a year to maintain. More...

By Scott Jaschik. An 1862 federal law, the Morrill Act, created land-grant universities. In the years since, some land-grant universities have become internationally prominent research universities, and many are crucial to their states. More...