Colleges

At Wheaton College, a controversy around one of its graduates, Russell Vought, a Trump Administration official, shows how deeply the past decade has fractured conservative Christians.

Since COVID, many professors have become more flexible about due dates. But some teachers believe that the way to address student anxiety is more deadlines, not fewer.

Not since the Vietnam War has a protest movement reached college campuses with such fury. We look at the reverberations at one school, Harvard University.

An online argument erupted after a video of a law professor grabbing a microphone from a student went viral. But the debate has obscured some fairly basic truths.

Carol Christ reflects on campus protests, then and now.

A series of cuts at West Virginia University has largely affected the humanities, but any program that is not seen as marketable may get the axe.

Bishop Sycamore, the subject of a new documentary, became a national scandal. But it was part of a larger, and largely unchanged, system.

“I’ve seen her smirk on other faces.”

Conservatives like Ron DeSantis see Hillsdale College as a model for education nationwide.

Enrollment in the humanities is in free fall at colleges around the country. What happened?

DeSantis is not simply inveighing against progressive control of institutions. He is using his powers as governor to remake them.

Students for Fair Admissions is one of only a few Supreme Court cases about the rights of Asian Americans. But what will it achieve on their behalf?

For fifty years, on college campuses across the country, he preached what is known as confrontational evangelism.

The Notre Dame semicolon, Sarah Lawrence quotation marks, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop em dash, and others. 

For years, Kathy Lee, a professor at an evangelical university, kept her sexual identity a secret. Then she decided to come out.

COVID-19 forced an experiment in test-optional college admissions. Can the College Board’s new digital exam meet the moment?

A book and a documentary examine how Asian Americans internalize the myth of the model minority.

Whenever a major reform is announced from within the admissions world, it’s a good idea to ask yourself what new powers the admissions department has given itself.

The university should offer an Introduction to Improv course, because we would like to learn how to do it.

I needed to make portraits that were heartbreaking and collages that would blow everyone’s mind. I needed to be great, worthy of the Western canon, of Dad.