The rescissions appear to target pots of funding that have the weakest constituencies on Capitol Hill, including $25 million of $52 million appropriated for migrant students.

Dozens of videos on social media feature freshmen moving out early in the first semester.

Schools and entire states are creating new rules forcing professors to teach more hours and show up at the office. At one university, professors quit in response.

Private equity sees the colleges’ cash crunch as an opportunity to profit from some of the world’s most valuable sports brands.

After loosening requirements during the Covid era, some schools are shaking up admissions again, facing pressure from the Trump administration, A.I. and even their own professors.

The policy was challenged as unconstitutional by one of the military academy’s civilian teachers. The academy left open the possibility of appeal.

The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.

Whitman College is trying to keep it simple: Tell us your adjusted gross income, and we won’t make you apply and get in just to receive a price quote.