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Free Speech Is Challenged A GROWING NUMBER of colleges are overhauling their speech policies in response to controversial protests about the Israel-Hamas war. At December's congressional hearing on antisemitism on [...]

RAJ Chetty has reshaped our understanding of social mobility in the United States. The Harvard University economist's research, often featured in The New York Times, has renewed scrutiny of America's [...]

APRIL 19, 2024 Dave Scott, associate vice president for intercollegiate athletics at the University of West Florida, can remember a 2014 conversation with Judith Bense, president of the university then. [...]

MEN'S BASKETBALL PLAYERS at Dartmouth College are employees of the university, a regional office of the National Labor Relations Board ruled this month. That means they have the right to [...]

OLIVIA KONG sounded 'sleepy and distracted' but not 'psychotic,' the on-call University of Pennsylvania psychiatrist would later say, when she reached out in the middle of the night and repeated [...]

SOME DEVELOPMENTS emerging in various areas of higher education--admissions, business, finances, research--are not yet widespread. But the pandemic, and with it a growing awareness of America's class divide, has pushed [...]

WHEN Indiana's abortion ban took effect in the fall of 2022, Tamara Kay, a tenured professor in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs, tweeted that she [...]

EARLIER THIS YEAR, Shirin Saeidi was at a dinner with three speakers who had been invited to the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville center she directs, when they told her [...]

DAVID BOYLES was standing alone outside an Arizona State University building last month when someone from Turning Point USA approached, trailed by another person with a camera. 'When did you [...]

THE SEARCH FOR A NEW PHILOSOPHY PROFESSOR at Bowling Green State University was relatively uneventful at first. A committee was formed, applications came in. Committee members culled the pool and, [...]

'WE'RE HERE NOW' JEFF AYISIRE woke before sunrise on March 1 with tears in his eyes. He'd had a dream. In the dream, his younger sister was telling him he [...]

STELLA LINARDI Linardi was stranded. It was 1:30 a.m. on September 3, and the junior at Cornell University stood in the lobby of Cayuga Medical Center, in Ithaca, N.Y. The [...]

SAMI SCHALK has a protocol for when Campus Reform gets in touch.When a reporter from the conservative news site emails her to ask about a recent tweet, the associate professor [...]

AMY MORRISON was at home when she got a call that made her heart sink. It was Saturday, February 29. Morrison watched on her TV as county and state public-health [...]

THERE'S A story people tell to explain how college leaders think about money that comes from ethically dubious sources. The protagonists change, but other details stay the same. Someone asks [...]

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. IT WAS a validating moment for Caleb Harper. Norman Foster, the renowned architect who designed Apple's circular headquarters, had come to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research facility [...]

THE EMAIL sparked panic. 'Effective immediately, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine is temporarily halting the appointment of visiting scientists,' wrote a medical-school administrator to the neurology department last fall. [...]

AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, the public may get a rare glimpse into one of the most opaque corners of its institutional operations: how it investigates alleged sexual harassment. This month, a [...]

LEADERS OF George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, which has been criticized for its ties to conservative donors, have spent years courting a wealthy Chicago philanthropist who has steered [...]

AFTER FIVE HOURS of argument last month, one thing was clear: The future of raceconscious admissions programs in America appeared as tenuous as it has ever been. The long-awaited oral [...]

Toolik Field Station is about a 10-hour drive north of Fairbanks, Alaska, theclosest city. The only way there by car is on the Dalton Highway, a long, mostly gravel road [...]

TERRY KARL lost count of how many times he tried to kiss her. In his office, in her office, at a hotel during a conference. She remembers the night in [...]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES Mark Bray finds himself explaining antifa --the antifascist movement--to the world. The lecturer in history at Dartmouth College didn't expect the job. Having researched Spanish radicalism as a [...]

AS ABORTION RESTRICTIONS become law in states across the country, faculty members and staffin some of those states face increasing limits on what they can say about reproductive health. In [...]

FOLLOWING THE Supreme Court's reversal of a nationwide right to abortion, colleges in states where the procedure is restricted or politically tenuous are facing thorny questions: What will happen to [...]

THE NEWS had been anticipated, but it was still jarring. The U.S. Supreme Court will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the almost half-century-old legal precedent that established access to [...]

THREE GRADUATE STUDENTS sued Harvard University this month, alleging that the institution failed to protect them from sexual harassment and threats of retaliation from a prominent anthropology professor, John L. [...]

IN THE END, Edward J. Blum got what he wanted--another chance to take down race-conscious admissions programs. Last month, the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases brought by Students [...]

EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES The Duke Technology Scholars Project, known as DTech, is a career-training program that seeks to increase gender diversity in the technology industry by placing female computer-science and electrical-engineering [...]

A PLAN to acknowledge and dismantle systemic racism at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has become the latest punching bag for Republican politicians in the state. One of them, [...]

THERE WAS A LOT that Anjani Jain liked about Bloomberg Businessweek's ranking of business schools. It was only when the deputy dean at the Yale School of Management dug deeper [...]

THIS TIME, it was the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Last month, about 200 students gathered in front of the president's house to demand accountability for years of alleged [...]

FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY appearsas a top-50 university on three lists. By 2025, it wants be on 10. The University of Houston's strategic-plan website lists a prominent 'milestone': It 'will rank [...]

OVER THE past 10 years, the Johns Hopkins University has phased out an increasingly controversial admissions practice: legacy preferences. Common among selective colleges, legacy preferences give the children of alumni [...]

HARVARD UNIVERSITY does not discriminate against Asian American students through its use of race-conscious admissions, a federal judge ruled last week. The university's admissions process 'passes constitutional muster,' Allison D. [...]

A UNIVERSITY'S HIGH-PROFILE DECISION to suspend dozens of sections of a diversity and ethics course three months ago rested on a troubling allegation: that a student had been made to [...]

THE TENSION in Idaho over whether colleges are 'indoctrinating' students with a leftist agenda was codified into law last month. Gov. Brad Little signed a bill that bars public schools [...]

WHILE most of the country reeled from shootings in Boulder and Atlanta last month, universities in Montana were preparing to allow guns on their campuses. In February, Montana's newly elected [...]

BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY last month abruptly suspended 52 sections of a diversity and ethics course, citing concerns that 'a student or students' were made to feel 'humiliated and degraded' in [...]

IT TOOK NEARLY FOUR DECADES, but Terry Karl finally got her apology. Lawrence S. Bacow, president of Harvard University, formally apologized this month to Karl, a former government professor, for [...]

IN SOME WAYS, it's July all over again. Coronavirus cases are surging across the country to previously unheard-of numbers while colleges are creeping closer to a daunting new semester. They're [...]

IN RECENT WEEKS, colleges have detailed their plans to bring students, staff, and faculty members back to campus in the coming months. Many college presidents have insisted that their final [...]

IF EVERYTHING RETURNS TO NORMAL this fall, the average Cornell University undergraduate will come into contact with more than 500 students in a typical week, according to a working paper [...]

DONALD COLE was in sixth grade when James Meredith arrived in Oxford, Miss., to register for class. Cole walked into his home in Jackson that day and was told by [...]

LINNIE WILLIS remembers the day federal troops came to town in 1962. She was attending an allblack school in Oxford, Miss., when James Meredith won a legal battle to become [...]

LINNIE WILLIS thought for three weeks about whether she would go back to the University of Mississippi for the reconciliation event. She'd felt unnerved when an organizer sent her an [...]

SELECTIVE ADMISSIONS is in crisis. That was the message conveyed by organizers of an admissions conference in Los Angeles in January. It was the first time the conference, hosted by [...]