If you want to be the president, you should probably win Wisconsin. And if you are a Democrat, there is a proven way to do that: Run up the numbers in Dane County, the fast-growing and deeply progressive swath of the state that contains Madison and the behemoth public university that carries the state’s name.…
There were just days left to process a batch of federal financial aid applications when Education Department officials made a fateful discovery: 70,000 emails from students all over the country, containing reams of essential data. They were sitting in an inbox, untouched. That discovery last week started a panicked, three-day crash effort by more than…
The man who shot and killed three faculty members on Wednesday at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was himself a professor who had tried and failed to get several jobs at colleges in the state, the authorities said on Thursday. The gunman, Anthony Polito, 67, was living in a Las Vegas suburb and was…
The metaphorical white puffs of smoke sent up by the College Football Playoff selection committee on Sunday signaled that the panel had chosen the four teams that would vie for this season’s championship — and that Florida State, unbeaten champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, was not among them. This caused smoke of a different…
In the Supreme Court decision striking down racial and ethnic preferences in college admissions, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. had harsh words for Harvard and the University of North Carolina, calling their admissions process “elusive,” “opaque” and “imponderable.” But the court’s ruling against the two universities on Thursday could lead to an admissions system…
Wellesley College proudly proclaims itself as a place for “women who will make a difference in the world.” It boasts a long line of celebrated alumnae, including Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright and Nora Ephron. On Tuesday, its students supported a referendum that had polarized the campus and went straight to the heart of Wellesley’s identity…
The violence at Michigan State University on Monday was the latest episode in a string of mass shootings on college campuses in the United States over the past few decades. Here are some of them: November 2022: Charlottesville, Va. Three University of Virginia students, who all played on the football team, were killed when a…
The Choice For over a decade, there had been talk about the need for some kind of Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. But after the murder of George Floyd in 2020 inspired global protest, the College Board decided to roll out an African American studies class, with a strong emphasis on United…
Police arrested a 28-year-old man on Friday and charged him with murder in connection with the brutal killing of four University of Idaho college students who were found stabbed to death overnight in a home near their campus last month. The man, Bryan C. Kohberger, was arrested in Chestnuthill Township in the Pocono Mountains region…
CARBONDALE, Ill. — There had never been an abortion clinic in the quiet college town of Carbondale, Ill. So when its first clinic opened this fall, it revealed tensions between residents that had largely been hidden. Regine Garmon, a Carbondale resident who works at the clinic, was standing on the sidelines of her son’s basketball…