Government

The National Collegiate Athletic Association and its member institutions will face a number of challenges to long-held values and policies this year.

Four-year institutions have fared better than two-year colleges when it comes to state support, a split that might be tied to enrollment declines.

Efforts to undo harmful recent policies and practices are necessary and important, but not sufficient, argue Louis Caldera, Nancy Cantor and Alan W. Cramb.

Students who were misled by their institution and only received partial government relief are due more help, to the tune of $1 billion, the Education Department announced.

Federal relief dollars appear to be enough to keep nationwide totals of state higher ed funding steady this fiscal year, even amid the pandemic. But almost half of individual states still reported funding declines.

After reading paper after paper describing the problem, scientists urge on- and off-campus entities to help female caregivers weather the pandemic through specific policy changes and approaches.

National Academy of Sciences panel chronicles what COVID-19 has been like for female scientists and then urges institutions to take meaningful, equity-minded action on their findings.

Groups focused on speech rights and religious liberties celebrated the ruling, which hinged on question of whether claims for nominal damages were sufficient to keep case from becoming moot.