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Public colleges are increasing students' overall graduation rates, but a study finds the gap between black and white students continues to widen.

U of California at San Diego's new early warning system aims to condense millions of data points into a simple metric showing whether students will graduate on time.

There is probably no more significant roadblock for college athletes seeking a meaningful education than the unreasonable amount of time they must engage in practice and other athletics-related activities, argue Allen Sack and Gerald Gurney.

The Markle Foundation, LinkedIn and the state of Colorado team up on a jobs site that seeks to create a common, skills-based language among job seekers, employers and education providers.

Higher education institutions must abandon a paradigm that allows them to deflect accountability and embrace the burden of being student ready, argues Byron P. White.

Inspired by findings of bias at the K-12 level, a study sought to see if higher ed officials would impose harsher penalties on hypothetical black students than on white ones.

Harvard singled out its final clubs as especially dangerous places for women. Victims’ advocates and researchers argue more colleges should take a similarly hard look at fraternities.