Thousands of cameras. A fleet of drones. Gun shot detection devices. Stationary and vehicle-mounted automatic license plate readers. Read more

Twenty-eight-year-old Michaela Bonner has been working 12-hour shifts as an emergency medical technician in Norfolk, Virginia, for the past four years, while attending and paying for college to finish her prerequisites for medical school. Read more

How Virginia Commonwealth U. went from all-in on diversity to auditing it. Read more

Science suggests we are hardwired for altruism, but do we really need to be thinking of others all the time? Read more

Colleges from Utah to Indiana and Maine are on track to offer three-year degrees in the near future. But the hesitations that have long plagued the movement haven’t disappeared. Read more

US-based researchers have dominated the Nobel prizes, but more than one-third of them were born abroad, drawn by the US’ world-leading research ecosystem. But many Nobel laureates fear that Donald Trump’s assault on that ecosystem will choke off the flow of future prizes. Read more

President Donald Trump’s Education Department recently announced a new pool of federal grant money aimed at helping teach about American history and civics as the nation marks its 250th anniversary next year. Read more

Lawmakers in Topeka, like those in some other state capitals, used a budget bill to order nonfinancial changes to public higher ed. DEI was the target this time. Read more

Columbia’s capitulation proves higher ed can’t save itself. Read more

Boulders at Stonehenge were taken to the monument's site by humans, rather than dragged there by glaciers, new scientific research claims. Read more