A college professor explains the real causes of a hotly debated phenomenon.

I read the hedge fund billionaire’s tweets so you don’t have to.

Harvard was right to shield its president from irate donors—but wrong to insinuate that the donors eventually won.

A manufactured controversy forced Elizabeth Magill to resign from Penn and continues to hound Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Here’s how it could have been avoided.

Meet Bill Ackman, the perfect embodiment of America’s growing oligarch scourge.

These mostly bogus plagiarism charges are the latest blunt weapon in the right’s war on universities as poisoners of young people’s minds.

The “party of free speech” is trying to strong-arm colleges into squashing peaceful protests.

Yes, Elise Stefanik set a trap. But the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT didn’t have to walk right into it.

There’s plenty to deplore when some on the left coddle Hamas. But harassing people you disagree with is no substitute for debate.

The affirmative action ruling doesn’t end the diversity debate so much as push it into new areas.

The rulings seriously curtail race-conscious college admissions, effectively ending a decades-old policy.

Campus diversity isn’t the only reason to keep the policy in place.

Ron DeSantis is leading an attack on academic freedom. And Ken Griffin is one of his biggest financial backers.

They insist they see a distinction between the -ism and the human beings. But the legislative attack on trans rights continues apace.

The activist who is now a leading education policy figure on the right actually matriculated at Harvard Extension School. There’s a difference.

Rich, elite institutions should stop taking donations from the fossil fuel industry immediately, to preserve the integrity of their climate research.

Conservative legal activists looking to roll back the legal remedies for historical racial discrimination couldn’t ask for a more accommodating high court.

How not to learn about the American past

It undermines equality and the common good.

The battle over Ivy League admissions focuses on a handful of elite schools and ignores deeper educational inequalities exacerbated by Covid-19.