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But mergers also carry risks — culture clashes, loss of institutional identity, and alumni feeling alienated. Many of these efforts struggle — or are never completed — because the merging colleges ...

I’ve been writing for several years now about the challenges of teaching Gen Z: the struggles to get students to read at length, care about their schoolwork, avoid AI, and lean into the hard work of ...

Nonwhite students now make up the largest share of American universities’ enrollment — though the diversity on campuses ...

Math-preparation gaps are so wide that faculty members across the University of California system are having to reteach ...

As our most prestigious colleges seek to hire conservative faculty, there is growing confusion as to what that might mean in practice. Critics worry that colleges will simply recr ...

Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity. Len Gutkin: In your New Critic essay, you give us an extended ...

In reality, students with disabilities face mounds of paperwork, climbing health costs, overworked administrators, and a ...

Young adults ask strangers on the internet what to study, what to avoid, which fields are safe, and which are cannibalized ...

To describe almost any of the country’s major research universities as an “organization” would be misleading, since it would ...

Activists have called out Bell’s diversity efforts at the University of Alabama, and Sen. Rick Scott said the process lacked ...

The Education Department hailed the consensus vote as a way to improve outcomes for students, but critics say the measures ...