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'Unprecedented' White Supremacist Activity

Report documents 107 incidents at colleges and universities in the current academic year.

Closing the Gap

Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.

New Visibility for HBCUs, but Not Dollars

New executive order moves HBCU initiative into White House but otherwise doesn't depart significantly from previous executive orders on historically black colleges.

Measuring Adversity

College Board pilots system to help colleges make admissions decisions about who is disadvantaged -- and evidence from one college suggests 20 percent of decisions might be different. But lack of emphasis on race concerns some advocates.

Incidents Roil Campuses

Racist video at Old Dominion, blackface controversy at Spring Arbor and anti-immigrant posters at the University of Texas.

Relationships Matter in Recruiting Latino Students

Two-year institutions across the country are getting creative with Latino student recruitment as Hispanic populations grow.

Calhoun: Gone at Yale, but Not Everywhere

After years of debate, Yale removes name of slavery defender from a residential college. But names and symbols associated with white supremacy remain visible on other campuses. Plus a chart of names that have not been changed.

‘Being Black, Being Male on Campus’

Through the voices of 40 individuals, new book examines what it’s like to be a black man on a college campus today.