Summer bridge programs have long helped students from underrepresented backgrounds start their college journey. In the anti-DEI era, many institutions are quietly shifting focus. Read more

At Western Illinois University, an empty dorm that once held 800 students is now a police training ground, where active-shooter drills have left behind overturned furniture, rubber-tipped bullets and paintball casings. Read more

Why did Salman Rushdie, famed author of “The Satanic Verses” and radical Islam’s most famous heretic, abruptly bow out of speaking at Claremont McKenna College’s graduation ceremony—and did he make the right decision? Read more

Many institutions still ‘pretending not to see’ issue of food insecurity among students, new book claims Read more

The Catholic prayer for the faithful echoed off the limestone walls and marble floor of the high-ceilinged chapel. Read more

A conservative legal group is urging the University of North Georgia to drop a policy that may punish students for addressing someone with biologically accurate pronouns as “sexual harassment” or “gender discrimination.” Read more

One year after the encampments, colleges are struggling to balance free speech and rule enforcement amid political threats. Read more

Penn State administrators want to close seven of 19 Commonwealth Campuses. The controversial proposal has prompted pushback from faculty, lawmakers and some trustees. Read more

For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. Read more

Nearly two dozen professors investigated by their universities are now sounding the alarm on what they say were essentially witch hunts against them for doing something that upset the campus status quo. Read more