higher education

A bill making ethnic studies a graduation requirement for California public-school students is expected to be signed by Governor Newsom.

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

Two decades of activism and scholarship have led to critical self-examination.

The University of Virginia was supposed to transform a slave-owning generation, but it failed.

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

For the past decade, history has been declining more rapidly than any other major, even as more and more students attend college.

In the wake of the 2008 financial collapse, no undergraduate area of study has fallen off more than history.

The ethical formation of citizens was once at the heart of the US elite college. Has this moral purpose gone altogether?

Determined researchers are finally drawing the lines between higher education and America's original sin.

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

What we can learn from liberal anti-communists.

Trump University follows a long line of for-profit schools that have faced accusations of dishonesty.

Reform is simply not possible.

The argument over renaming Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School is neither trivial nor simple.

Affirmative action doesn't work. It never did. It's time for a new solution.

From Dow to now.

Like student protesters today, Martin Luther King Jr. and other 1960s civil rights activists were criticized as disruptive and disorderly.

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

The university where 13 student protesters were killed or injured during the Vietnam War era worries that other schools have learned nothing from its history.

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.