As higher education goes broke, expensive sports teams are a luxury that colleges can’t afford.

We need a country that doesn’t make debt accumulation the cost of entry into a decent life.

The pandemic should force America to remake higher education.

The battle over Ivy League admissions focuses on a handful of elite schools and ignores deeper educational inequalities exacerbated by Covid-19.

Small, private colleges teach students how to be not only workers but civically engaged citizens of the world.

The rise of the STEM-obsessed, corporate-partnered university

In Santa Cruz, an unauthorized graduate student strike threatens to spill into its second week, with no clear resolution in sight.

How private equity baron Stephen Schwarzman has steamrolled our civic culture

Some 5,000 union workers from the state's university system are scheduled to walk out on Monday.

The right's opportunistic obsession with left-wing bias at U.S. colleges and universities threatens to destroy one of the pillars of national unity.

They teach classes. They grade papers. They get paid. And yet, private universities insist they're not workers.

The standardized test company says quantifying student hardship gives SAT scores context—but who is defining the frame?

The ex-lawyer for Harvey Weinstein isn't a victim of political correctness or #MeToo excess. He put his professional brand above his students' welfare.

An increasing number of states allow college students to arm themselves. The dire consequences are on the rise, too.

Trump once supported more forgiving loans, but Betsy DeVos has other ideas. Meanwhile, Democrats are uniting around debt-free college.

The elite university's refusal to bargain with a student union could have far-reaching consequences.

The real intellectual crisis in higher education is not over free speech, but the quality of speech.

The education secretary's latest move is another favor to for-profit colleges.

The country has a long, maddening history with for-profit colleges—and the blame is bipartisan.