Our national politics are divided and angry in a way that often feels beyond our control. Cross-community school partnerships can be a local answer to the discord raging around us.

Others believe the lack of consistent language causes confusion; each college has its own format with its own vocabulary. This can make it difficult to answer the critical question: How much will this ...

A new and previously unreported estimate projects that 442 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or ...

A first-of-its-kind study has found that occupational, physical and speech therapies, among others — improve children’s test ...

Tenure in higher education has long granted faculty the rights to peer review, committee deliberation and presentation of ...

Most community college students aspire to a bachelor’s degree, yet only a small fraction ever earn one. Many community college students lose nearly half their credits when they transfer. That must ...

As part of a deal to restore its federal funding, the university is underwriting apprenticeships for people exiting prison and programs for early educators. Critics call the payments extortion and ...

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Academic freedom is not a gift. It is a structure long protected by tenure, a contract with no expiration date that guarantees procedural protections to faculty. Tenure has granted faculty at U.S.