A new documentary film charts the rise of for-profit colleges and questions higher education’s financial-aid model.

They affected federal policy, campus culture, and the national conversation about education in 2017, and are likely to remain influential in the year ahead.

Keith L. Ross will become president of Missouri Baptist University, and Timothy W. Gordon was named vice president for student affairs at Buffalo State College.

A monument to the Confederacy known as Silent Sam stands at the main entrance of the University of North Carolina. It’s ripping the campus apart. So what’s keeping it there?

High-school students from low-income and minority backgrounds gain valuable skills, and colleges get an edge in recruiting.

Academe today is far too reticent to weigh in on matters of public policy. But if not now, when?

Higher education has widened the gap between the wealthy and the rest.

Social and economic chasms in our country are growing wider, and higher education is part of the problem.

My classrooms are filled with farm kids and military vets. They know how to work hard, care about a job well done, and view education as a privilege.

The process can make a fool or liar out of anyone.

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The competition to get into elite institutions is evident by the number in which the top 25 percent of students had scores of 800 on the SAT critical-reading or math exams.

Lucian Wintrich was at the university to deliver a speech titled “It’s OK to Be White.” He grabbed a woman after she appeared to take a piece of paper from the lectern where he was speaking.

A recent fiasco involving a Harvard interviewer prompted a wave of contradictory responses. College officials and alumni found the practice meaningful, or a charade; important, or a major risk; something to continue, or to end at once.

Colleges must adapt to a new normal of hate groups’ targeting their campuses, university officials say.

Anthony Scaramucci, who was briefly the White House communications director, threatened to sue a student newspaper writer on Monday. On Tuesday morning he resigned from an advisory board at Tufts University.

The university scrapped plans to hire Greg Schiano as its next head football coach, marking a rare capitulation to fans who seized on a disputed claim that he had failed to report Jerry Sandusky’s abuses at Penn State.

Teaching techniques like “the progressive stack” are a way for faculty members to circumvent our own buried prejudices.

Some skeptics say no, but here’s why undergraduates deserve a seat at the table.

Colleges were and are unequal, only now they are more unequal than ever before.