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Unlikely Enrollment Success Stories

Despite months of doomsaying for regional public universities, a number boasted surprisingly robust enrollment gains this fall. We took a closer look at six.

One student holding an Israeli flag amid students waving Palestinian flags at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

In Pictures: A Year of Protest and Pain

On the anniversary of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which ignited a war in Gaza that is now entering its second year, we look back at how the conflict played out on college campuses across the country.

UCLA Jewish students waving Israeli flags counterprotest fellow students in their Palestinian solidarity camp on their Westwood campus on Thursday, April 25, 2024. College protests around the country are seeking their schools divest from Israel over the Israel-Hamas war.

Oct. 7 Kicked Off a Difficult Year for Higher Ed. How Should Universities Move Forward Now?

We asked higher ed leaders and thinkers to take stock of the fraught year just past and offer a vision for the future. They gave us a quarrelsome, eloquent earful.

Former Texas A&M Vet, Professor Found Guilty of Animal Cruelty

A Texas jury has unanimously found a former Texas A&M University faculty member and veterinarian guilty of felony cruelty to...
A photo illustration of two flags, one of Israel and the other of Palestine, colliding with each other with a crack going through both of them.

The U.S. Started Investigating a Professor’s Pro-Palestine Speech. Then She Was Fired.

The Office for Civil Rights said it didn’t ask for the firing as part of a probe into how Muhlenberg College handled complaints related to a professor who allegedly made “pro-Hamas statements."

S&P Optimistic About Community College Financial Trends

A report released Tuesday by S&P Global Ratings offers a hopeful outlook for community colleges. The report says community colleges...
Cover of a new book, Discredited: Power, Privilege and Community College Transfer

The Power Dynamics of Transfer

A new book explores how the interplay between community college and university staff members affects the challenges facing students who want to transfer.

A photo illustration consisting of a photograph of Maura Finkelstein next to a photograph of Muhlenberg College's campus.

Tenured Jewish Professor Says She’s Been Fired for Pro-Palestinian Speech

Pennsylvania’s Muhlenberg College may have become the first institution since Oct. 7 to oust a tenured faculty member for such statements, though the professor is appealing the decision and still receiving a salary.