By Benjamin Reiss. The earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer shouldn’t be overfreighted with historical implication. More...

By Chris Lebron. When Martin Luther King Day comes around, I think that people celebrate the holiday because everything is half-off. When [my teacher] told me about her student that got killed from gun violence, I told myself that I still don’t think that us. More...

By Goldie Blumenstyk. Universities with large endowments are once again coming under the congressional microscope. Unlike in 2007 and 2008, however, this time it’s just the private. More...

By Rio Fernandes. A presentation at a faculty forum at the University of Houston that circulated Tuesday on Twitter has raised pressing questions about how professors will adapt to Texas’ controversial new campus-carry law. More...

By Sara Lipka. Since the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights signaled stricter enforcement of Title IX in April 2011, it has resolved 46 investigations of colleges for possible violations of the gender-equity law involving alleged sexual violence. More...

By Peter Schmidt. The controversial firing of a faculty member who advised Mount St. Mary's University’s student newspaper has drawn attention to such publications’ vulnerability to censorship. More...

By Katherine Mangan. Over the past year and a half, the number of colleges finding themselves in the cross hairs of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights over their handling of sexual-assault cases has nearly tripled, to 161. More...

By Eric Kelderman. Facing a $150-million budget deficit, leaders of one of the nation's most prestigious public research universities on Wednesday announced an effort to provide long-term financial stability to the institution and become less reliant on state money. More...

By Paul Basken. The U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation on Wednesday that would require the National Science Foundation to award grants only for research projects that the agency can certify as being in the national interest. More...

By Kelly Field, Paul Basken, and Brock Read. The budget — for the 2017 fiscal year, which begins on October 1 — reiterates the president’s plan to make community college free while adding a new wrinkle: tax credits for companies that invest in community colleges and hire their graduates. More...