Biden to Deliver Commencement Address at West Point Military Academy
President Biden will address the graduating class of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, on Saturday, delivering a commencement speech at a moment of military upheaval abroad, university protests at home and a looming White House rematch with former President Donald J. Trump. Mr. Biden is expected to congratulate the Army’s newest More...
N.C.A.A. Athletes’ Pay Deal Raises Questions About Future of College Sports
Brent Jacquette knows a thing or two about college sports. A former collegiate soccer player and coach in Pennsylvania who is now an executive at a consulting firm for athletic recruiting, he’s well aware More...
University Leaders Face a Long, Complex Summer
Around now, university officials might usually take a deep breath. Campuses are emptying out for the end of the academic year. Gone, for the most part, are the tent cities that student activists erected as More...
Se acaba de doctorar a los 17 años. Ahora irá al baile de graduación
Cuando Dorothy Jean Tillman II defendió su disertación con éxito en noviembre de 2023 para obtener su título de doctorado en la Universidad Estatal de Arizona, no podía esperar para compartir la noticia More...
Harvard Braces for Commencement Protests
The backlash against the letter, and Harvard’s slow response to demands that it denounce the Hamas attacks as terrorism, led to strife on campus. Pro-Palestinian students were doxxed, their names and faces More...
Why Northwestern, U.C.L.A. and Rutgers Were Picked for the Hearing
When the House Committee on Education and the Workforce called the presidents of Harvard, M.I.T. and the University of Pennsylvania to testify last December, the focus was on how the leaders were dealing with More...
A Chicago 17-Year-Old Just Earned Her Doctorate. Now, She’ll Go to Prom.
When Dorothy Jean Tillman II successfully defended her dissertation in November 2023 to earn her doctoral degree from Arizona State University, she couldn’t wait to share the news with her best friend. “It More...
U.C.L.A. Removes Police Chief in the Wake of a Protest Melee
The campus police chief for the University of California, Los Angeles, has been removed from his post in the aftermath of a violent, hourslong attack on a pro-Palestinian encampment at the school, during which More...
Biden Administration Cancels Another $7.7 Billion in Student Loans
President Biden announced on Wednesday the cancellation of $7.7 billion in student loans held by 160,000 borrowers, building on his strategy of chipping away at college debt by tweaking existing programs as More...
Top Education Officials Were Warned of FAFSA Overhaul Hurdles in 2020
Long before the Education Department’s overhaul of the federal student aid application fell apart this year, officials who now lead the department were warned of a complex and time-consuming effort and its More...
