The United States is deporting parents without their children, creating a whole new family-separation crisis.

The plan also calls for eliminating one-fifth of currently vacant positions, combining course sections and eventually closing programs with low enrollment to reduce costs.

According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.

Black Democratic candidates for governor, the Senate and the House are hoping that attacks on Black representation will bring out Black voters in November.

A professor at Northern Arizona University teamed up with Navajo communities to test water quality in remote wells. The map is meant to help tribal members still struggling with the effects of past…

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The proposed policy would particularly affect Silicon Valley, Wall Street and universities.

McClatchy laid off 12 journalists at the Lexington Herald-Leader and eliminated a majority of its positions, as a part of its deep, nationwide layoffs.

Anxiety about job prospects and heavy reading loads have led to dramatic declines in humanities majors since 2012, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.

What do we lose in the hours spent filling out paperwork?

What do we lose in the hours spent filling out paperwork?

The Treasury Department released rules that would prevent schools with race-based programs from qualifying for tax-exempt status, a threat to both higher education and other private schools.

The student debt crisis won’t be solved by repayment plans alone. Experts say affordable college, stronger financial aid, and debt cancellation are key.

The defense secretary’s cuts, which have hit about 10 percent of the military’s top officers, are dividing the Pentagon, officials said.

ICE sent them away under a controversial policy without knowing where they were going or what would happen next.

The new restrictions apply to students and faculty members.

Berea College, in Kentucky, has paid for every enrollee’s education using its endowment for 126 years. Can other schools replicate the model?

The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.

Guides are expected to serve as the face of the university and as an authentic voice for prospective students. Can they truly be both?

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She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.

From making music to launching a huge literacy program, the singer always took her work seriously. Eventually, the rest of us caught up.

“What place in the future development of the South ought the negro college and college-bred man to occupy?”

Their names are gone from UT’s doors, but faculty and alumni say the academic communities they built will endure.

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The Trump administration has a new series of questions for colleges about affordability, curriculum, and “national service”—how will they respond? And: W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington in a dubious battle over education, from the Atlantic archives.

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