Choices range from often cramped but fun halls of residence to shared, potentially messy flats in town Read more

Harvard University has begun asking prospective students to recall a time when they strongly disagreed with someone as the institution works to improve civil discourse. Read more

With business slumping, Apple has been under pressure to show what it will offer buyers to jumpstart a new wave of iPhone sales. Read more

Opening a center to handle shared ancestry complaints such as those alleging antisemitism is the latest signal that colleges are turning to their Title IX playbooks to comply with Title VI. Read more

Scientists argue disciplines need their own ways of thinking about student belonging to reach diversity goals Read more

An anonymous person reported a University of Minnesota professor to the bias team for using the phrase “piñata of shame” in an editorial. Read more

Some selective colleges are reporting drops in the number of Black students in their incoming classes, the first admitted since a Supreme Court ruling struck down affirmative action in higher education. At other colleges, including Princeton University and Yale University, the share of Black students changed little. Read more

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled against LGBT activists who sought to prevent religiously affiliated colleges from invoking faith-based exemptions to federal anti-discrimination laws. Read more

Listen to three sound-accompanied pictures Nasa has released to celebrate the 25th 'first light' anniversary of Chandra, its Great X-Ray Telescope. Read more

The university courted controversy by slashing programs and laying off both tenured and nontenured faculty members. More spooked professors are leaving in addition to those cuts, but so are key leaders who pushed them. Read more