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Enrollment has declined dramatically at Whittier College. The president says she has a plan to fix it, but critics question the progress and her leadership amid change at the college.

A new National Academies report recommends systemic changes to confront racism in science, technology, engineering, math and medicine disciplines.

The association rejected the idea of allowing law schools to be test optional.

President Biden proposes that those from the Middle East and Northern Africa should get a category in the Census, plus changes for Latinos. Both changes will decrease the count of white people.

Support makes a big difference in eventual college success.

Textbooks, op-eds, museum exhibitions, public lectures, congressional testimony, podcasts, historical gaming—the American Historical Association wants departments to consider more as historical scholarship.