A surge in anxiety and depression has played a part in persuading colleges to take a more active role in helping students to shape their lives.

They don’t prepare for the transition, colleges don’t help enough, and neither can rely on luck, says the author and advocate Wes Moore.

Documentation of the slave trade and analyses of endangered languages are among the projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing the university of bias against Asian-American applicants wanted to question the official about recently disclosed guidelines for considering race in admissions.

Behind the curtain is an academic who has made waves for his digital emulation of Bannon’s former boss.

The regents’ decision to back DJ Durkin, the embattled football coach, while parting ways with the president led to charges of skewed priorities and mismanagement. But it was announced on Wednesday evening that Durkin, too, would leave.

Wallace D. Loh’s resignation as president of the University of Maryland at College Park is just the latest in a sordid history of college leaders who fell victim to the activities of one very public corner of the campus.

A learning innovator shares a few approaches for engaging today’s students.

Separating personal opinions from institutional positions is a challenge for top administrators. The “Bowen Rule” can help sort it out.

Students have racially disparate access to sources of advice crucial to their success, a new report says.

Failing to educate the next generation of citizens on the role of religion in our democracy is like failing to teach doctors how the circulatory system works.

She is the system’s second consecutive president to leave the job after serving for less than five years.

The move against the white-supremacist speaker and nine others follows a yearlong investigation by the university’s police department.

It’s not unusual for American colleges to receive millions in gifts from Saudi Arabia. But some, like an elite entrepreneurship college in Massachusetts, have spun deeper partnerships that are harder to unwind.

The cost of a higher education is weighing ever more heavily on the minds of Americans. Selective flagship universities appear to be getting the message.

Promises of better GPAs and career success are big talking points for Greek-life recruiters, but two researchers find the correlation to be the opposite for at least one of those claims.

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