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Susan Walsh / AP A Second President Falls at Michigan State
The board of trustees accepted John Engler’s resignation on Thursday, and the healing process begins again for a university in crisis.
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Seth Wenig / AP Community-College Students Succeed at Elite Schools—When They’re Admitted
A new report finds that these students graduate from selective colleges at higher rates than first-time freshmen.
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Brian T. Evans / Getty Millions of College Students Are Going Hungry
A new government report highlights just how pervasive the problem is.
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Jerome Gorin / Getty How to Turn Schools Into Happier Places
A strong student-teacher relationship can help put a dent in school suspensions, according to a new study.
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Alex Brandon / AP The Year the Gun Conversation Changed
States passed a flurry of gun-control measures in 2018, but the future of the push for greater regulation is tied to the much larger political drama playing out in America.
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Hal Bergman / Getty When School Choice Means School’s Choice
Parents of students who are “harder to educate” may have a hard time getting schools to reply to their emails about how to apply.
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Alex Brandon / AP Trump’s School-Safety Commission’s Strange Focus on Discipline
The administration wants to keep schools safe by ditching rules meant to prevent racial bias in school discipline.
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J.D. Pooley / AP Free College in 2020
Can progressive Democrats win on free-college proposals in the upcoming election?
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Gerry Broome / AP UNC Punts on Silent Sam
The Board of Governors rejected UNC Chapel Hill’s plan to build a $5.3 million building for the Confederate statue, setting the stage for a renewed battle in March.
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Nikjvt / Palokha Tetiana / Shutterstock / Arsh ... The Liberal Arts May Not Survive the 21st Century
Wisconsin built a public higher-education system that was admired around the world. But it may not withstand a tech-hungry economy.
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Rebecca Cook / Reuters A Guarantee of Tuition-Free College Can Have Life-Changing Effects
A mailer sent to low-income students with that promise led to a major jump in enrollment at the University of Michigan, according to a new study.
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Liam Bailey / Getty What Do Students Do When a For-Profit College Closes?
Unfortunately, they may not be able to do much.
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Gerry Broome/AP Silent Sam Survives
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced its recommendation that the school build a new, $5.3 million building to house the Confederate monument.
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Carolyn Kaster / AP The Fallout at Michigan State Continues
The institution’s former president has been charged with lying to investigators in the Larry Nassar case.
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Patrick Semansky / AP The Limits of a Billion-Dollar Donation to Johns Hopkins
Michael Bloomberg’s donation to the institution has been heralded as transformational. But the colleges that are struggling the most rarely get such game-changing gifts.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Betsy DeVos’s Sexual-Assault Rules Would Let the Accused Cross-Examine Accusers
The Education Department released new guidelines for how colleges should handle campus sexual misconduct. But they could make things worse.
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Jae C. Hong / AP The Media’s Week-Long Attention Span for a Mass Shooting
There’s a common refrain that the dense news environment pushes out coverage of mass shootings, but the cycle has been remarkably consistent over the past two decades.
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Timothy Hiatt / Getty Images Michelle Obama’s College Experience Is All Too Familiar for Minority Students
“Princeton was extremely white and very male. There was no avoiding the facts.”
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Mark J. Terrill / AP A Mass Shooting in One of the ‘Safest Cities in America’
At least 13 were killed at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, that was frequented by college students.
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Patrick Record / AP A Lesson From Montanans’ Vote to Tax Themselves to Fund Higher Education
At a time when Republican trust in college overall is low, voters tend to keep supporting their local schools.
