UCLA, Columbia, Duke among colleges planning to start January with remote instruction as omicron surges
Major universities including Columbia, Duke and the University of California at Los Angeles are among a growing number of colleges choosing a temporary pivot online as coronavirus cases rise.
By Susan SvrlugaDecember 22, 2021They borrowed money to pay for college. Here’s what they would change about student loans.
Student loan borrowers tell us what they would change about their debt experience and the policy that defines federal education lending.
By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Savannah RobinsonDecember 22, 2021Harvard won’t require SAT or ACT through 2026 as test-optional push grows
Harvard University's decision to allow students to apply without SAT or ACT scores for four more years likely presages similar test-optional actions by other colleges.
By Nick AndersonDecember 16, 2021- Answer SheetPerspective
How ‘Birds Aren’t Real’ became experiment in misinformation -- and more news literacy lessons
From the News Literacy Project.
By Valerie StraussDecember 16, 2021 The pandemic disrupted ‘dreamers.’ Can Biden’s spending bill get them back on track?
Federal financial aid could be a critical lifeline for undocumented students, who like other vulnerable populations are still enduring the economic and social fallout of the pandemic, but it may not be enough.
By Vanessa Sánchez and Danielle Douglas-GabrielDecember 15, 2021Colleges move exams online, urge boosters as coronavirus cases rise and omicron fears grow
Colleges are grappling with the fear of worsening pandemic conditions as they prepare to send students home for the holidays. They're also pledging to be agile as data emerges about the omicron variant.
By Susan Svrluga and Lauren LumpkinDecember 15, 2021Robert Farris Thompson, scholar of Black art across continents, dies at 88
In a transformative life of scholarship, the Yale University professor redefined the study of Black culture from Africa to the Americas.
By Emily LangerDecember 14, 2021More colleges rethink student loans as debate over debt cancellation rages on
Ohio State University and Smith College are removing student loans from their financial aid packages, joining more than 70 other schools to do so.
By Danielle Douglas-GabrielDecember 11, 2021University System of Maryland approves $15 minimum wage for most employees
The University System of Maryland will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour starting January for permanent workers.
By Lauren LumpkinDecember 10, 2021A surprising reason preventing some students from finishing college: Lack of transportation
At a time when colleges are increasingly focused on how to get and keep students enrolled and on a path to a degree, some of the most surprising challenges are not academic but logistical.
By Charlotte WestDecember 10, 2021Georgetown students renew push for reparations to descendants of enslaved people
Georgetown University students are pushing the school to help descendants of enslaved people sold to pay off debts at the school. University officials say they have set aside money to help and are planning a spring launch of those efforts.
By Susan SvrlugaDecember 9, 2021Small Virginia university gets $75 million gift, a modern record for women’s colleges
An anonymous alumna is donating the money to Hollins University to support scholarships and financial aid.
By Nick AndersonDecember 9, 2021As GWU students get unlimited transit deal, Metro wants more colleges on board
The U-Pass allows full-time students unlimited rides on Metro for a semester. But concerns about fees are turning off many area schools.
By Nick AndersonDecember 4, 2021Mold at Howard U., and an omicron update
Why dozens of students at Howard University spent part of their fall semester living in tents. And, omicron comes to the United States.
By Maggie Penman and Alexis Diao and Reena Flores and Jordan-Marie Smith and Linah Mohammad and Rennie Svirnovskiy and Ariel Plotnick and Emma Talkoff and Savannah Robinson and Sean CarterDecember 3, 2021Colleges prepare for unknowns with omicron variant
The new omicron variant, emerging in the midst of holiday travel, has university leaders bracing for the unexpected next semester
By Susan SvrlugaDecember 3, 2021Fresno State’s library named for a man who expressed ‘clear antisemitic hate’ and Nazi sympathies, university says
Henry Madden, who was the longtime librarian of Fresno State, expressed his views on Jewish people and Nazi Germany in personal papers that remained sealed for a quarter-century after they were given to the university in 1982, the college said.
By Nick AndersonNovember 30, 2021Prisons are training inmates for the next generation of in-demand jobs
Every year, hundreds of thousands of prisoners take federally funded career and technical education courses. And postsecondary education in prison, both vocational and academic, will soon become more widespread.
By Danielle DreilingerNovember 26, 2021From slavery to Jim Crow to George Floyd: Virginia universities face a long racial reckoning
William & Mary offers a case study of the tensions: A memorial to the enslaved rises on the historic campus near monuments to key historical figures who were also enslavers.
By Nick Anderson and Susan SvrlugaNovember 26, 2021With purchase of edX, this company is betting big on a prestige brand in online higher education
The $800 million deal is done. Now 2U hopes the platform MIT and Harvard created will drive global growth.
By Nick AndersonNovember 26, 2021He always wanted to be a physicist. At 89, he earned his doctorate from Brown.
A retired doctor returned to the Ivy League for his third, and favorite, doctoral degree
By Susan SvrlugaNovember 25, 2021