Higher Education

Jin Park, a Harvard pre-med student, became the first DACA recipient to win a Rhodes Scholarship after a rule change made him eligible.

• By Jack Herrera

A new study questions the place of meritocracy in higher education.

• By James McWilliams

The latest academic hoax emerges from the same ideological position as the Trump administration's attack on trans rights.

• By David M. Perry

Irish 4 Reproductive Health, a student activist group, filed suit against the Trump administration and Notre Dame over the school's refusal to offer birth control coverage to students and faculty.

• By Natalie Pattillo

Gun advocates are arguing that the controversial law is keeping students safer, but there's little evidence to back those claims.

• By James McWilliams

A growing endowment generates wealth. A small part of that wealth is invested to bolster an administration tasked with generating prestige, and, as students rush to take out federal loans, raising tuition and fees.

• By James McWilliams

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from an investigation into Nike's control over the University of Oregon to a profile of Canada's Desmond Cole.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer needed money to save his school. Alum and Nike chief executive Phil Knight was happy to help. But after Frohnmayer made a key mistake, Knight exacted a brutal punishment.

• By Joshua Hunt

As Americans' faith in higher education reacts to rising costs, mounting debts, and the growing sense that preparation for the workforce need not take a four-year degree, the post-World War II ambitions of higher education may prove to be a noble failure.

• By James McWilliams

The letters-to-the-editor section of Science, one of the world's top scientific journals, is taking a new stance on what arguments it will accept about those accused of sexual harassment.

• By Francie Diep

To relegate academic projects that seek to untangle the complexities of human systems to the realm of grievances is a farce—one that misses the point of the academic project in the first place.

• By Jared Keller

And progress on that front may be slowing.

• By Dwyer Gunn

New research finds alcohol consumption is higher in chapters where members are expected to assert their masculinity.

• By Tom Jacobs

What happens to taxpayer money when scientists are faced with accusations or findings of wrongdoing?

• By Francie Diep

Other Asian-American advocacy organizations applaud attempts to secure access to education for communities of color.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Advocates see this as a concrete signal to the scientific community that bad behavior won't be tolerated.

• By Francie Diep

The proposed policies could go into effect without requiring a vote from Congress.

• By Rebecca Worby

Often college students nearing graduation have bills that, while small, could prevent them from graduating. Many universities now offer micro-grants to cover such expenses, which helps keep such students on track to graduation.

• By Emrys Eller

One study suggests it's possible but not feasible.

• By James McWilliams

An uptick in federal investigations into the mishandling of sexual assault on college campuses has done little to affect applications or donations to universities.

• By Jared Keller

Nearly two-thirds believe they're smarter than average.

• By Tom Jacobs

Paul Quinn College in Dallas became the nation's first urban work college. Now it's expanding to a second campus and creating a consortium of other urban colleges that may join the work college movement.

• By Delece Smith-Barrow

A new book argues that American democracy depends on an unlikely source: the English department.

• By James McWilliams

And what can other federal programs learn from their success?

• By Dwyer Gunn