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Max Whittaker / Reuters A Costly Suspension for UC Davis's Embattled Chancellor
Linda Katehi has been put on paid leave for 90 days while investigators probe allegations of nepotism, conflicts of interest, and squandering public money on PR.
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Ano Lobb / Flickr Left Outside the Social-Justice Movement's Small Tent
Why a high school senior feels alienated from activist groups that share causes in which he believes.
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Brian Nguyen / Reuters How UC Davis Tried to Scrub Its Abuse of Students From the Web
The university spent at least $175,000 dollars to remove "references to the pepper spray incident in search results on Google for the university and the Chancellor."
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Ben Brewer / Reuters Civic Education in the Age of Trump
Public schools in the United States aren’t teaching students how to engage diverse opinions.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters A Free-Speech Debate Devoid of Facts
A survey reveals how little commentators know about what students think about the First Amendment.
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Joe Mabel / Flickr Why Not Take a Black Studies Class?
Readers offer their insights and experiences to today’s college students and educators.
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Mpspqr / Wikimedia How Emory's Student Activists Are Fueling Trumpism
The billionaire candidate couldn’t have created more perfect foils for a candidacy built on resentment.
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Gerry Broome / AP North Carolina Overturns LGBT-Discrimination Bans
After Charlotte passed a city ordinance barring discrimination and creating transgender accommodation for bathroom use, Republicans in the state legislature swung into action.
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Max Whittaker/Reuters UC Davis Students Demand the Ouster of Their Chancellor
Citing her paid side gigs and the horrific brutality by campus cops that marred her tenure, they make as strong a case as campus protesters anywhere in the nation.
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Wikimedia Self-Defeating Radicalism at Western Washington University
Student activists demand millions to reshape their institution and punish faculty members who violate ‘social justice’ taboos.
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Keith Bedford / Reuters How Perceptions About Opportunity Vary by Race
Blacks are far less likely than whites to think children of color are given the same chances in life as their peers.
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Emily Varisco / AP What Do Americans Think About Access to Education?
People support expanding pre-school for kids, but when it comes to free, public higher education, opinions split along more familiar political lines.
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Adrees Latif / Reuters Free-Speech Advocates Are Not Trying to Silence Students
A recurring falsehood in the ongoing debate about campus culture, politics, and policy
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David W. Cerny / Reuters Scapegoats in the Culture War
Melissa Click is the latest in a long line of people to be punished not just for their own transgressions, but for the problems they’ve come to symbolize.
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Scott Sonner / AP Nevada’s Coveted Latino Voters
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are vying for the support of young minority voters in the final days ahead of the caucus.
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Robert F. Bukaty / AP Maine Governor Paul LePage's Latest Stunt
The move caps a week in which he insulted lawmakers and then tried to play off his racist comments and support for the guillotine as ploys for attention.
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Jason Reed / Reuters School Integration’s Comeback
President Obama’s budget includes a new $120 million grant to support school integration.
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Susan Walsh / AP Obama’s Controversial Higher-Ed Legacy
Many college leaders criticize the administration’s lack of two-way communication on key policy initiatives.
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Chris Carlson / AP Can the Youth Vote Change Election Outcomes?
Younger voters—who care about issues such as college affordability and student debt—could be an important factor in Iowa’s caucuses.
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Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters An Easier Way to Enroll in School Lunches
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will test using Medicaid data to automatically enroll eligible students.
