4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (333+ words) Just last month, the Department of Justice found Duke, pictured above, has discriminated in its medical school admissions. The Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services announced this week that they had determined the University of California, Berkeley’s law…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (492+ words) Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2025, colleges and universities awarded the lowest number of humanities bachelor’s degrees since 1991. Humanities…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (790+ words) A new survey from the ed-tech company Ellucian also shows that more than half of all college students work full-time, and many report that financial stress affects their mental health. Many colleges offer free food pantries to help low-income students…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (106+ words) Students know what college is for. Many of the sector’s critics do not. A student paused before she answered. I had posed a simple question to a group of students: Ten years from now, how would you want to describe…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (778+ words) Generations College is adding bachelor’s degrees, betting that students who might otherwise stop after an associate degree will keep going. Generations College, a private nonprofit two-year institution in Chicago, will begin offering four bachelor’s degree programs this fall. Kimberly Newson…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (497+ words) Such scholarships are fairly common, though one international enrollment expert acknowledged that some institutions already had doubts about offering them. The DOJ accused Harvard of providing scholarships “to the potential detriment of persons of other national origins including citizens of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (469+ words) We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler Published in April 2026 Throughout most of my academic career, the dominant theme has been progress. Webster’s defines progress (verb) as: 1: to move…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (376+ words) As college students’ math skills decline worldwide, Penn is verifying students’ readiness for advanced calculus and algebra courses. Just one in five students who take calculus in high school will enroll directly in Calc II, research shows. Starting this fall,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (142+ words) His story should not be used to further undermine efforts to diversify the faculty pipeline. By Lisa J. Servon The attention Arday’s and other related stories are receiving shifts focus away from a more mundane fact: Academia remains disproportionately white. As…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (623+ words) Duke is the latest university to announce plans to shut off access to alumni email addresses amid rising technology costs and cybersecurity threats. But scores of alumni feel betrayed by their alma mater, which promised the service for a lifetime....