Tribal Colleges Rely on Federal Funding. Their Leaders Fear the Trump Years.

As the Trump administration has publicly targeted elite universities, it has also quietly pursued funding cuts for the nation’s tribal colleges, which rely on federal dollars to operate.

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America’s New Segregation

To be one nation, we have to embrace ground-up social change.

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As Trump Pushes International Students Away, Asian Schools Scoop Them Up

The president’s hostility toward foreign students has made American higher education a riskier proposition for them. Other countries are eager to capitalize.

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A.I. Is Fueling a ‘Poverty of Imagination.’ Here’s How We Can Fix It.

What bots are really doing in the classroom.

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How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape Student Life

Austerity is coming to colleges boxed in by President Trump’s cuts and their own troubles. As they lay off workers, cut majors and take other steps, the changes may eventually be felt in classrooms.

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West Point and Air Force Academy Affirmative Action Lawsuits Are Dropped

A group that represents students sued the military academies over their consideration of race in admissions but dropped its case after the Trump administration rejected diversity initiatives.

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Harvard Nears a Deal With the Trump Administration to Restore Funding

A potential $500 million settlement would end a monthslong battle that pitted the nation’s wealthiest school against the Trump administration’s extraordinary crackdown on higher education.

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I Never Understood Our Data-Saturated Life Until a Hurricane Shut It Down

When Helene disconnected my part of North Carolina for weeks, my neighbors and I had to relearn old ways of knowing what was happening — and what wasn’t.

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The Harvard-Trained Lawyer Behind Trump’s Fight Against Top Universities

May Mailman is credited as an animating force behind a strategy that has intimidated independent institutions and undercut years of medical and scientific research.

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Bard Music Festival: An Innovator in Exile

Bohuslav Martinu, a Czech composer who thrived on the artistic and scientific explosions of the 20th century, is the center of this summer’s programming.

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