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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.
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America Is Divided by Education
The gulf between the party identification of white voters with college degrees and those without is growing rapidly. Trump is widening it.
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Joe Raedle / Getty The Candidates Embracing Their Black-College Roots
Andrew Gillum and Stacey Abrams are part of a wave of black politicians who are playing up their HBCU bona fides, and in turn raising the profile of the beleaguered institutions.
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Paul Marotta / Getty The Stakes for the Harvard Trial Are Higher Now That It’s Over
The Ivy has spent the past three weeks being grilled about whether it discriminates in its admissions process. But the legal battle over affirmative action will likely rage until the Supreme Court weighs in.
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Eric Gray / AP Fighting for the Right to Vote in a Tiny Texas County
The battle between Prairie View A&M and local election officials over early voting mirrors the struggle for voting rights over the past half century.
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IAISI / Getty America Can’t Seem to Kick Its Racist Costume Habit
Colleges warn students every Halloween not to wear inappropriate or offensive costumes, but they struggle to prevent the incidents.
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Patrick Semansky / AP What Happens When a College’s Affirmative-Action Policy Is Found Illegal
A Supreme Court case found that the University of Michigan was using race in admissions the wrong way. Then the state stepped in, and minority enrollments dropped.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina
A new plan to lower tuition has led to a 60 percent jump in the number of students who have reenrolled at one university.
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Todd Gipstein / Getty The Harvard Trial Doesn’t Matter
The lawyers challenging the university are testing out their arguments to see which ones stick ahead of a potential appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters What the Harvard Trial Is Really About
The plaintiffs have downplayed the role of affirmative action in the case, but their opening arguments on Monday showed that the issue is central.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Harvard Case Is About the Future of Affirmative Action
One day before Harvard goes to court to defend its admissions practices, two warring rallies made clear that the trial is about much more than just the university.
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Anonymous / AP The Supreme Court Justice Who Forever Changed Affirmative Action
Justice Lewis Powell’s ruling in the 1978 case Regents v. Bakke buoyed affirmative action—but in the process, it transformed how colleges think about race and equality in admissions.
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Library of Congress The Little College Where Tuition Is Free and Every Student Is Given a Job
Berea College, in Kentucky, has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?
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The Atlantic Brett Kavanaugh’s Friend Mark Judge Edited His High-School Yearbook
The Supreme Court nominee seemed to blame the editors—one of whom was his good friend—for crude words on his yearbook page. Judge is also implicated in assault allegations against Kavanaugh.
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Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Georgetown Prep’s President Defends Its Culture, Without Mentioning Brett Kavanaugh
The Supreme Court nominee was recently accused of committing sexual assault while he was a student at the high school in the 1980s.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters George Washington’s Broken Dream of a National University
The founders believed a federal institution focused on civic education could help unite a fractured country.
