‘We Need to Be Worried’: Three University Leaders on the Fate of Higher Education in the Trump Era

The view from Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wesleyan.

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Larry Summers to Step Back From Public Commitments Over Epstein Emails

New emails showed that Dr. Summers, a former Harvard president, had stayed in touch with Jeffrey Epstein for years after Mr. Epstein faced sex trafficking charges.

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MacKenzie Scott Gives $700 Million to Historically Black Colleges

The donations to over a dozen schools come as the Trump administration is directing more funds to the historically Black institutions, too.

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Chaos at the Justice Department

President Trump has transformed the agency. We look at what’s happening on the inside.

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New International Student Enrollment Plummeted This Fall, Survey Finds

The overall number of international students enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities, including those who enrolled in prior years or who are working after graduation, fell only slightly.

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Church and College Leaders Work to Free a Detained Afghan Student

When Ali Faqirzada was detained after a routine asylum hearing in New York, officials from Bard College and the Episcopal Diocese tapped their networks to help.

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America’s Formula for Greatness Is Under Threat

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

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An Economist Asked, How Much Should We Spend to Avoid the A.I. Apocalypse?

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway.

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Is Your College Football Team Short of Cash? Sports Betting Can Help.

Louisiana lawmakers tried a novel strategy for raising revenue, a model that proponents say might work more broadly.

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Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding

An extraordinary rebuke to the federal government’s campaign against elite schools, the ruling could upend settlement talks with the university system.

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