public colleges/universities

Extractive industries filling public university coffers on stolen land. Here's how 14 land-grant colleges took 8.2 million acres from 123 Indigenous nations.

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of black families.

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

In its first century the American higher-education system was a messy, disorganised joke. How did it rise to world dominance?

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

A longtime resident of Shoe Lane chronicled the life of his community as it was demolished by Christopher Newport University. His photographs helped a reporter seek accountability.

The right has had qualms about universities since the 1930s.

The state wants to severely limit what professors can say in the classroom.

To understand today’s political battles, you need to know how they began.

In 1970 Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.

You get no windows. You take what you can get.

Robert Nisbet predicted the managerialism that has brought universities low. But he also saw a way out.

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

In the contemporary United States, higher education does more to exaggerate than relieve class and cultural divisions.

Democracy requires something more than a handful of super-rich universities.

Academic freedom can help universities flourish, while political compromises can hold them back.

Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

On the occasion of its bicentennial, and in the wake of racist violence in Charlottesville, UVA confronts its history.

The structure will span 300 feet and is expected to be unveiled on the Fairfax City campus in 2021.