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Students in a new Rutgers study indicate pay doesn't matter in selecting a major.

Experts say pressure to succeed in big-time football is behind reports of thrown weights, repeated verbal abuse and more at Maryland. Did it take a student's death to capture attention?

Since 2016, top women's colleges have been seeing significant gains as more young women embrace Me Too and resistance to Republican politics.

Despite lingering skepticism about the future of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, the technology behind them is becoming a focus of university teaching and research.

Decision reverses one made a year ago to keep the question. Individual colleges may still ask it. Disciplinary records question remains.

Margee M. Ensign writes of the urgent requests she receives from students in Africa trying to come to the U.S. to study, and the need for American academics to continue to push a global agenda.

University of Texas at Austin added a new short essay prompt, but when it went live after the rest of the application, many were confused and UT pulled the question.