Hina Naveed, who came to the United States from Pakistan, says she’s troubled by the president-elect’s rhetoric. She and other undocumented students are rallying to save protections that could be rolled back.

The election of Donald Trump has heightened conflicts on campuses, but it has also thrown into public view discord that many say was there all along.

On Thursday you may face some questions on topics that aren’t in your wheelhouse. Here are some tips on answering them.

Katherine Bergeron, president of Connecticut College, discusses how it revamped its curriculum to help students better connect their experiences in and out of the classroom and to help them develop a broad question to frame their education.

In a long Education Department career, James Manning has been known as a steady hand without partisan proclivities.

White support for Donald Trump plunged by 18 percentage points if voters had earned a college degree. Why?

The Association of American Universities worries that the open-access policies federal research agencies are developing now are not sufficiently aligned. Any slowdown in putting them in place, it says, is "probably a positive."

Student groups are often non-hierarchical, making it easier to mobilize but tougher to pass along institutional knowledge.

Many believe the association’s aid system is flawed — but not in the way you might think.

Allison Goldblatt and her family believed that her elite status as a swimmer would pay her way at the college of her choice. But they found out the truth.

The college presidency is a demanding job that has grown more daunting in a time of strained budgets and fast-moving controversies. Aspiring leaders have a lot to learn.

To grow as a leader, you have to be willing to fail. That’s the message Tim Davis shares with students through a new project at UVa.

The first wave of borrowers in a program meant to steer students toward public-service jobs will see their debt wiped away next fall. But neither borrowers nor government officials have a good sense of what to expect.

Columbia University has barred students who complain of sexual misconduct from recording disciplinary proceedings. It says it needs to protect privacy, but some students say it is just trying to protect itself.

Students at dozens of colleges are demanding that their institutions become "sanctuary campuses" in response to the election of Donald J. Trump. College officials are weighing their options.

Leaders say they walk a fine line, trying to reassure students who feel threatened without alienating conservatives on campus.

Such colleges, in the words of one prominent scholar, are the "antidote" to the blight of minority communities that the president-elect criticized on the campaign trail.

Three colleges explain what went wrong and how they changed course.

The president-elect has alarmed researchers from abroad and, at times, rejected the scientific consensus on climate change and on vaccines. But he has also offered support for the federal role in funding research.

In 49 counties that are home to public flagship universities, only eight favored Donald J. Trump over Hillary Clinton, according to a Chronicle analysis of voting data.

Alumni and donors are accusing university leaders of being too secretive, as controversy lingers over the firing of the football coach.

The president-elect has pledged to reverse the Obama administration’s actions on immigration. Students who benefited from those protections suddenly find themselves living in a much scarier world.

The president-elect's resonant skewering of elites, political correctness, and immigration policy resonates with the country’s longstanding skepticism of academe.