State and nationwide efforts to tackle student equity and close the gap on access and affordability for all students have cost millions of dollars and have required mass coordination between higher ed stakeholders. The latest enrollment figures for upward transfer students from two-year institutions to four-year institutions illustrate life-bearing vital signs. Read more

Cornell University philosopher Kate Manne is calling out the discrimination – often blatant – faced by scholars deemed overweight Read more

It’s fine to end a sentence with a preposition, according to a shock ruling from the American dictionary publisher. But is it OK to recklessly split infinitives? Read more

The 93-year-old widow of a Wall Street financier has donated $1 billion to a Bronx medical school, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, with instructions that the gift be used to cover tuition for all students going forward. Read more

University of Wisconsin students recently had to read a “racist and offensive” assignment that portrays “whiteness” as “oppressive,” according to a student taking the adult education class. Read more

A new bill in the Mississippi Legislature aims to close three state universities. Read more

Board chair gives late husband’s stock to help train doctors in New York’s impoverished Bronx Read more

Innovators plow forward with this technology in a largely unregulated ecosystem. Ethicists and a new National Academies report urge caution. Read more

Broad “harassment” policies drive some campus free speech problems, according to a new report. Read more

As signs of the enrollment cliff loom, higher education is trying its darndest to resuscitate interest and value in a college education. Read more