Emails and internal records from some of the nation’s most selective universities paint a picture of a system fraught with inequities and looser standards for applicants with rich parents.

Yale and Cornell are among the universities cautioning foreign students against international travel, while students from mixed-status families have new concerns about their FAFSA data.

Republicans have become increasingly critical of "liberal indoctrination" on campus and are pitching big ideas about reforming how colleges work. But some of those proposals would likely require more government intervention, not less.

Black college students in several states reported to authorities Wednesday they had received anonymous text messages using racist references to the era of U.S. slavery. The messages varied in detail, but followed the same basic script, saying the recipient had "been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation."

Americans love to grouse about the rising cost of college. But consider this: The average in-state student at a public university now pays only $2,480 a year in net tuition and fees. Tuition, of course, is only one item on the list of college expenses. Room and board can cost more. But the full cost […]

College students in North Carolina and Wisconsin are excited to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming presidential election. Students continue to march through their campuses during voting events to encourage their fellow student to vote. Watch the video at USA Today.

Fewer students in this fall’s class of college freshmen chose to disclose their race or ethnicity in their applications to some top schools, data shows. The pattern, which is nuanced and only affects a sliver of the nation’s universities, is among several early indications of the potential impacts of the Supreme Court’s decision last year […]

An antitrust lawsuit filed this week accuses some of America’s wealthiest colleges and universities of overcharging students with divorced or separated parents. The federal class action that landed Monday in Illinois district court says 40 private colleges – including Harvard University, Yale University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University – conspired to keep […]