By Scott Jaschik. College cites safety issues in calling off talk by conservative Polish scholar and politician. More...
‘After Virginia Tech’
By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses new book on the impact of the mass shooting and how survivors tried to honor the dead and prevent future tragedies. More...
Anxiety Up Among Students, Study Finds
By Scott Jaschik. Reports of anxiety disorder among 18- to 26-year-old students have doubled since 2008, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. More...
Middlebury's Strange April
By Scott Jaschik. College regularly criticized over aborted talk in 2017 again fails to let a speaker talk. Campus was unsettled over chemistry exam question on how to make gas used by Nazis. More...
Free-Tuition Idea Spreads in Med Schools
By Scott Jaschik. A year after NYU's medical school went tuition-free, Washington University in St. Louis announces that scholarships will eliminate tuition charges for more than half of new M.D. students. More...
University Rejects Calls to Fire Camille Paglia
By Scott Jaschik. Students and others demand her dismissal because of statements on Me Too and on transgender people. More...
Protest Over White Nationalist Grad Student
By Scott Jaschik. Students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Wednesday held a protest over the revelation in leaked documents that a graduate student is a member of Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group, AL.com reported. More...
Entering Campus Building While Black
By Scott Jaschik. Barnard places on leave campus safety officers and a supervisor involved in incident with black student that many are calling racial profiling. More...
The Real Odds of Getting In
By Scott Jaschik. New analysis shows just how false are the reports that it's impossible to get into college. More...
OCR Tells Med School to Stop Considering Race in Admissions
By Scott Jaschik. Move involving Texas Tech health sciencies center follows investigation over whether university has been considering race-neutral alternatives. More...