Two people were killed and a dozen others were wounded when city police and state highway patrol officers opened fire at what is now Jackson State University in Mississippi.
Colorado Mesa University and the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have spent the last year exploring new approaches to managing outbreaks.
The university said a group of men tried to enter a house for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students last week. Residents said they were terrified and traumatized by the episode.
As the founding editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, she turned to “trashy novels” and parliamentary debates to find Canada’s version of the language.
College in a pandemic was not the experience that most students had in mind. But at year’s end, some see positive experiences and insights that came out of it.
A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.
The virus has infected more than 29,855,400 people and has been detected in nearly every country.
The university system has reached a settlement with students to scrap even optional testing from admissions and scholarship decisions.
Mike Polisky, who held the position for about 10 days, stepped back under mounting concerns about his past handling of complaints of racist and sexist policies in the university’s cheer program.
Gov. Mike DeWine of Ohio announced on Wednesday that residents could win $1 million for having received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine in an effort to get more Americans vaccinated.
A los perros que no serían la primera opción de muchos dueños de mascotas les va mejor cuando tienen que aprender de un extraño, en comparación con algunos canes más agradables.
Throughout the pandemic, nothing has stopped her from going into the office every single day (with fresh flowers).
While teaching important skills and values to the next generation, they also find opportunities to learn.
Robert Caslen, a retired Army lieutenant general, was accused of failing to credit a lengthy passage in a commencement speech he delivered.
Reviving higher education in America requires a holistic solution that ends student debt and restores dignity to educators.
The suits are a last-ditch effort by some athletes, alumni and supporters to save 11 sports planned to be cut after this school year.
Researchers at Mercer University in Macon, Ga., authenticated the head, which was brought to the United States by a professor decades ago, and turned it over to Ecuadorean officials in 2019.
Bruce D. Perry talks about what it’s like to write a book with a co-author who needs no introduction.
El país está atrapado en una crisis demográfica. Pero las cifras también mostraron niveles crecientes de educación y urbanización.
The Rev. Kevin O’Brien had delivered the homily at a Mass for the inauguration of President Biden in January.
A Smith College admissions officer says there is too much emphasis placed on the hardship stories of applicants. Also: Money for global distribution of Covid vaccines.
In “America on Fire,” the historian Elizabeth Hinton offers a sweeping reconsideration of the racial unrest that shook American cities in the 1960s and 70s.
Following the acquisition of the singer-songwriter’s once-secret archives in 2016, a Tulsa-based foundation will put lyrics, photos and films on display in Oklahoma.
Mr. Brennan, who set an N.C.A.A. record for touchdown passes in 2006 and led the Rainbow Warriors to their only bowl series appearance, had recently completed a course of treatment at a rehab center.
Bozeman, Mont., has big-city problems, but it may not get big-city help.
The initiative, which will benefit Johns Hopkins and six other institutions, will be named in honor of Vivien Thomas, best known for his work treating “blue baby syndrome.”
The rule reverses a Trump-era policy that barred the students from obtaining emergency aid to cover food, housing and school supplies.
After lying dormant in buried bottles for 142 years, 11 seeds germinated on the Michigan State University campus after scientists planted them.
He favored phonics to teach reading and grouping students with different aptitudes rather than by age or grade.
The country is locked in a demographic crisis. But the figures also showed rising education and urbanization levels.
A new study questions that figure, known as Dunbar’s number. The Oxford professor for whom it is named, Robin Dunbar, dismissed the findings as “absolutely bonkers.”
The sprawling SUNY system joins a growing list of academic institutions that plan to make a Covid-19 vaccination mandatory on their campuses.
The university conducted tens of thousands of coronavirus tests, aborted the football season and lost $10 million. Is that light at the end of the tunnel another train?
Yes, I’m a student from the “hood.” But we have more to offer than our adversity.
The university accused 17 students of cheating on remote exams, raising questions about data mining and sowing mistrust on campus.
Five states are poised to allow college athletes to profit from their fame starting on July 1, and the N.C.A.A.’s leader says the association is preparing to respond.
The rosters showing where seniors are headed say little about the role that money and value played in their decisions.
Many students want “The Eyes of Texas” to go. Wealthy alumni insist it should stay. The dispute has become a flash point as universities struggle to deal with traditions spawned in earlier eras.
We asked a big question: “Do you want children?” Over 11,000 people responded.
We asked a big question: “Do you want children?” Over 11,000 people responded.
His name surfaces again in a lawsuit over shoe company payments to college players. But the surprising part is the paltry sums involved.
Employers are debating the pros and cons of mandating workers to get vaccinated.
The administration has been making the case to allies that to avoid paying the additional taxes the president has proposed, wealthy Americans would give more to nonprofits.
At Yale, a colleague said, he showed “there was a way to compete hard and well in financial markets, but to have our lives be about something that mattered more.”
Sixty years ago, a Times article described one girl’s wish to find a pen pal. A journalism class investigated how the story ended.
Dogs that would not be the first choice of many pet owners do better than some of the more agreeable fellows when they have to learn from a stranger.
Dogs that would not be the first choice of many pet owners do better than some of the more agreeable fellows when they have to learn from a stranger.
For the first time, researchers have identified the remains of a sailor from the doomed 1845 Franklin expedition of the fabled Northwest Passage.
Adolescents could soon be eligible for Covid-19 vaccines, making full, in-person school even more likely.
Richard Cordray, the consumer financial protection chief under President Barack Obama, will now head the federal student aid office in the Education Department.
As Sweet Sixteens, proms and graduation ceremonies were disrupted or canceled, kids turned their losses into opportunities for new traditions with friends.
A Rutgers Law student repeated an epithet from a legal case, and now Black students at the New Jersey school are calling for a policy on slurs — and apologies.
Our students will still be studying Plato and Aristotle, but we can't afford a whole department.
Dan-el Padilla Peralta thinks classicists should knock ancient Greece and Rome off their pedestal — even if that means destroying their discipline.
The Ivy League, unlike most Division I conferences, decided against spring sports. That has led some athletes, like baseball players at Brown, to find outside ways to train.
My hometown in Oregon shows what the federal government can do — and also what happens when it stops trying.
Allegations of anti-Semitism, sexual misconduct and racial discrimination have led to turmoil on the small Oregon campus. Some have called for the university’s president to resign.
Real scalpels, artificial intelligence — what could go wrong?
The government, regional legislators and major museums said they would make “substantial” returns of the famous West African artifacts starting next year.
With vaccinations on the rise, many colleges are planning in-person commencements, sowing frustration on campuses sticking to online ones.
N.Y.U.’s campus is in limbo as graduate students have stopped working, with their union demanding higher wages, more benefits and less police presence on campus.
The company has pledged not to profit from its vaccine during the pandemic. Governments have been paying several dollars per dose.
Stone Foltz, a 20-year-old sophomore at the university in Ohio, died on March 7, three days after he had attended an off-campus Pi Kappa Alpha event.
Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.
Private colleges make up the bulk of the schools with vaccine mandates, but some public universities have also moved to require shots, according to a survey by The New York Times.
President Biden’s proposal calls for community college to be free for all Americans, which may relieve some of the burdens saddling low-income and working-class college students.
It was bottled after the Civil War, but tests show it was likely made in the late 18th century, offering a glimpse into early American distilling.
President Biden’s latest proposal is funded by raising taxes on wealthier Americans, and it is likely to encounter Republican resistance for that reason.
Mark Emmert’s extension stunned conference commissioners and university athletic directors and reflected some stubbornness as the N.C.A.A. faces legacy-shaping reckonings.
After this pandemic year, several superintendents across the country are leaving their jobs.
A federal solution has to account for states that vary widely in how much they charge for tuition.
The proposed American Families Plan would expand access to education and child care. It would be financed partly through higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
The decision to keep Mark Emmert until 2025 was unexpected, but Emmert had said for months that he had no interest in retiring.
The transfer, accompanied by billions of euros in state assets, will enable the prime minister and his supporters to exert long-term influence.
Any residency requirements will be set aside, officials said, allowing college students who got a first shot on campus to get the second while home for the summer.
Armed with degrees in biomedicine and engineering, she wanted to administer health care. Her Covid-19 death came just five days before her father’s.
Creating and seeding accounts for every newborn is found to have an impact on aspirations as well as savings.
How “pandemic boredom” led to an internet sensation and a battle royal (with pool noodles) of many Joshes.
Howard University’s board of trustees approved the decision to scrap the program, the only such department at a historically Black university.
The disclosure that anthropologists at two Ivy League universities had kept bones from a victim of the 1985 MOVE bombing infuriated its members as well as city leaders.
Six former University of Michigan students have filed legal papers accusing a former lecturer of sexually harassing them and the school of not doing enough to protect them.
Here are some tips on appealing your offer, especially if your finances have changed. Schools “are keenly aware” of flexibility needs, one expert says.
In 1966, he found heat-resistant bacteria in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park. That led to the development of the chemical process behind the coronavirus test.
A new study shows that a 20-year-old drug prevents scarring in mice. If it works on humans, it could change the lives of those with disfiguring wounds.
Los Angeles’s oldest stained glass studio, Judson, is collaborating with emerging and established artists to modernize a medieval craft.
Environmental groups write that gains in energy efficiency and renewable power exceed the plant’s annual output. Also: Stewardship of wild horses; yeshiva graduates’ success.
After a tumultuous year, classrooms are talking about the murder of George Floyd.
The Mercer County town has long attracted affluent professionals who take on long commutes in return for the charming setting and top-rated schools.
Every 20 years under the cover of darkness, scientists dig up seeds that were stashed 142 years ago beneath a college campus.
As one museum has pledged to return skulls held in an infamous collection, others, including the Smithsonian, are reckoning with their own holdings of African-American remains.
The display in New York’s Union Square, which reports the window to address global warming, now also measures the rising use of renewable energy.
Los científicos han descubierto que los osos pardos, al igual que las personas, parecen elegir el camino de menor resistencia.
The fire, which began Sunday and is still being fought, ravaged a library that housed first-edition books, films, photographs and other primary sources documenting Southern African history.
Red flag laws are supposed to keep guns away from people who should not have them. That did not happen with the gunman who killed eight people in Indianapolis.
Stanford, Connecticut, South Carolina and N.C. State are the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament.
Gonzaga, Baylor, Illinois and Michigan are the top seeds in the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament.
The three days last March that changed sports.
Un adenovirus ayuda a preparar el sistema inmune para combatir el coronavirus.
Coronavirus cases continue to climb steadily at colleges, a New York Times survey has found. Some schools have announced vaccine requirements for students returning in the fall.
How the coronavirus spread across the United States.
A stern disciplinarian with a white towel on his shoulder, he made Georgetown’s basketball team champions.
An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.
Catherine Volcy, like college students across America, is studying from home. She is aching to talk in person with her peers and professors about this tumultuous year.
A look at all the vaccines that have reached trials in humans.
President Trump and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. debated for the first time, with Chris Wallace of Fox News moderating. Watch the full video with our fact-checks and analysis.
College campuses, like the rest of the country, are enduring a coronavirus surge.
Expect increased pressure on other teams to change their nicknames and logos, including the Braves, Indians and Chiefs.
Immediate steps to limit social contact in parts of the United States where few cases have been identified are needed to slow the outbreak, a model suggests.
Here is a growing list of public and private schools, as well as colleges and universities, that have suspended or altered classes in the local effort to curb the outbreak.