Small colleges start closing their doors for good
MacMurray College, a liberal-arts school with more than 500 students in central Illinois, survived the Civil War, the Great Depression and two world wars. But it could not survive COVID-19.
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As US tells colleges to divest from China, students use code names to evade CCP
Professors at Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Amherst College are taking precautions to protect students from the CCP.
Judge tosses lawsuit against college for Islamist violence course that offended Muslim student
An Arizona federal court has dismissed a lawsuit alleging anti-Islam hostility in an Arizona community college course.
Early Adopters
Being among the first to announce an online fall wasn't easy, but these college leaders say the benefits outweighed the drawbacks.
News publishers fight tech giants for better deals
Technology giants are facing calls from news publishers for a better share of revenues from Australia to America.
Returning Chinese scholars ‘marginalised’ at home and internationally
Chinese academics coming home from abroad should be seen as a source of new ideas, not sidelined, study says
International students turning away from US colleges for lots of reasons
Already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic, American colleges and universities now stand to lose hundreds of thousands of international students over the country’s failure to contain the pandemic, the challenges of online learning and a more hostile U.S. government.
Germany opts to keep teaching online to avoid spreading Covid
Denmark and Switzerland holding more in-person classes
Mich. students demand annual race audits of faculty demographics
A letter to WMU demanded mandatory anti-racism training and more resources for promotions of Black employees.
Who should regional public universities serve?
The coronavirus crisis has hurt colleges everywhere. But for schools like Ohio University — nonflagship public campuses in Ohio and across the Midwest that were already struggling — it has hastened a reckoning.
