Specialized Colleges

Applications from underrepresented minority students double.

Three-judge panel says parties will condemn themselves to endless years of acrimonious, divisive and expensive litigation unless they settle desegregation lawsuit.

Health sciences final exam question on gangs, race and graffiti rubs some the wrong way at Cal State Long Beach. Now the professor is under investigation.

Bennett College will have to appeal to keep its accreditation, while St. Augustine's was taken off probation. Although the historically black institutions' fates may be different, both struggled under the same pressures.

Our academic freedom may be at stake, writes Julie Kim, if most of our paycheck is controlled by a hospital that is affiliated with but not owned by the institution.

Study finds impact of an accreditor's shift.

New studies find variation by departments, with many findings of significant rates of depression and anxiety.

An investigation into a Texas community college found that administrators improperly changed nursing students' grades from failing to passing.