The 24-year-old rapper hosted a kinder beauty pageant, with scholarship money as the prize.
Student housing is shifting away from recreational dazzle and toward amenities that reflect the gig economy: stronger Wi-Fi, room for collaboration and 3-D printers.
Student housing is shifting away from recreational dazzle and toward amenities that reflect the gig economy: stronger Wi-Fi, room for collaboration and 3-D printers.
My Orthodox Jewish education skipped sex ed, and I didn’t have “The Talk” until I was 24.
Activists wanted a Democratic debate focused entirely on climate change. They aren’t getting one, but in Miami this week, the issue will be inescapable.
Some students may have felt unsafe because I represented Harvey Weinstein. But feelings alone should not drive university policy.
Research released this week finds that many online retailers use so-called dark patterns to influence what shoppers decide to purchase. Cracking down on the practice could be difficult.
Senator Bernie Sanders, along with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, would cancel all student debt and eliminate tuition at public and community colleges.
An innocent went to the races, a major event on the British social calendar, in search of answers about class, nostalgia and the state of England today. She went in the wrong hat.
I.I. Rabi came up with the idea behind M.R.I.s. Who brought it to fruition? A man whose family fled genocide.
A philosopher says they’re about helping students “appreciate relative degrees of success in the mastery of skills and subject matter.”
A philosophy professor says students can both study Plato and get the services they need at mainstream colleges and universities.
The wife of Bernie Sanders had a bold plan to save Burlington College. Within six years, it was defunct, and federal prosecutors were on the case.
The request would eat up nearly half the cash left at Dream Center Education Holdings, the chain that ran Argosy University and the Art Institutes.
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If Beijing truly wants to orchestrate an influence campaign among Chinese students in America, it needs to step up its game.
Juul is giving Meharry Medical College, a historically black institution, money for a research center that will study, among other things, Juul.
You don’t have to know exactly where you’re headed, but it helps to have a sense of direction.
When Paul Rimmer took his son to a service at King’s Chapel in Cambridge, England, an usher asked them to leave. Mr. Rimmer’s letter to the dean went viral, with many parents sharing similar stories.
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?
A generation of American students has become tragically familiar with mass shootings. Many of them describe the life-changing experiences in their college applications.
Jerry Falwell Jr. defied expectations when he supported Donald J. Trump in 2016. Now details are emerging about behind-the-scenes maneuvering before the endorsement.
We’re interested in hearing from students who have written college admission essays about surviving a mass shooting.
Readers, invoking moral character and mercy, disagree about the revocation of a Parkland student’s admission.
Dr. Barrett-Connor founded and led an important long-term study on aging, using both men and women as subjects — an unusual method at the time.
A plant that grows in the country’s north has been found to exhibit an unpredictable sexual identity, challenging the idea of reproductive norms for other living things.
Sometimes sin is an opportunity for redemption.
The student, Kyle Kashuv, a recent graduate of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, had repeatedly used racial slurs in a written chat with classmates when he was 16.
His economic project and his political project are indistinguishable.
Monday: More apartments will stay regulated, with stricter limits on rent increases.
The state is teaming up with Silicon Valley to make mental health services more available. Promises abound, and so do potential problems.
About income inequality. About corporate power. About corrupt politics. And about being America’s next president.
The Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has increased processing times for applications from international students seeking summer jobs, leaving hundreds stranded.
A libel case against the university has raised questions about how much a college should get involved with the protests of its students.
Astronomers have announced a global contest to rename dozens of extrasolar planets. The nominees are pouring in.
Legislators trying to curb the numbers of unvaccinated children have been met with vigorous opposition from upset parents.
Students around the country take home the infant simulators, with little evidence that they reduce pregnancy.
Students around the country take home the infant simulators, with little evidence that they reduce pregnancy.
A handful of companies already dominate the market for digital assistants. The implications for consumer privacy are a serious concern, researchers say.
Even the ultraconservative Strom Thurmond backed it. What happened?
To a doubting medical world, he found compelling evidence that some cancers are passed along genetically. His work was ultimately widely embraced.
Swarms of insects move across continents each year. Scientists used radar to track one species and discovered a vast ecological force.
Researchers have now quantified the ideal amount of time needed to reap the health benefits of the great outdoors.
The 2020 contender talks Trump, jobs and higher education.
He took a leave from Harvard to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and, as a deficit hawk, never shied from challenging his White House colleagues.
Dr. James Heaps, a longtime gynecologist at the school’s student health center, was the subject of four allegations of sexual misconduct, the university found.
The first sentencing in the scandal raised questions about culpability in the case and the role of universities, who have been described as victims.
The first sentencing in the scandal raised questions about culpability in the case and the role of universities, who have been described by prosecutors as victims.
A Monmouth University poll of voters in Nevada, a key early-voting state, showed only three candidates polling in the double digits.
Meanwhile, Gov. Steve Bullock of Montana appears to have been shut out of the first Democratic debate after failing to pick up 1 percent support in the survey.
Brazil’s education system is being strangled by a president who doesn’t believe in learning.
Are we merely reproducing privilege or is there something to salvage in the system we have now?
This Hudson River city, where manufacturing once thrived, is eager to join the upstate boom. And housing prices are slowly creeping up.
This Hudson River city, where manufacturing once thrived, is eager to join the upstate boom. And housing prices are slowly creeping up.
Demographic shifts. Climate change. The internet. “Sea Ranch is changing, like our society,” said the architect Mary Griffin. “We simply can’t build the way we did even 20 years ago.”
Members of the class of 2019 share the inspiration behind their decorated mortarboards.
A statewide poll suggests that President Trump is better liked than Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has become more unpopular since declaring his 2020 candidacy.
Newly released papers show that Robert Edwards, who won a Nobel Prize, tried in vain to have Jean Purdy recognized as an equal partner in the breakthrough.
Why are some small towns thriving?
The verdict raised questions about the responsibility of colleges to police students’ speech and behavior, as well as broader First Amendment issues.
This scientist couple created an airborne observatory to map tropical forests. Now they’re using it to identify threatened reefs.
As the architect of higher education policy, Diane Auer Jones is pushing to overhaul accreditation, and, to critics, revive the fortunes of “bottom feeder” for-profit colleges.
Students, teachers and reformers are pushing back against the failures of mainstream higher education.
The U.S. economic expansion will be the longest in its history if there is no recession by July 1. But we won’t know for sure for months. Or years.
Protesters of sexual assault across the country have focused on their schools, using similar tactics and winning major concessions.
Complication rates are high among the oldest patients. Now a surgeons’ group will propose standards for hospitals operating on the elderly.
In the 1960s he was the man asking tough questions to teams of college students in a fast-paced test of knowledge.
Tensions had publicly bubbled up in recent weeks, with Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. reportedly dictating how he wanted his $21.5 million donation spent.
Graduation guidance, e-learning around the globe, a scholarship program for refugees — and more. A collection of views and news from a special report on Learning.
More students in the United States are studying overseas, and colleges now offer a variety of experiences that let students choose what they want.
David Van Zandt. the university’s president, on the importance of reaching students outside the United States.
A growing number of intensive programs offered online, or on campuses around the world, can help workers at all stages become more globally minded.
New ventures hope to fill a need as the number of African high school graduates grows, along with demand for a more highly skilled work force.
These students “have a level of grit that students who have not been through similar experiences probably don’t have.”
John Okada’s 1957 novel about a Japanese-American draft resister has been republished by Penguin Classics, raising questions over its ownership.
Dr. George O’Neil has implanted a device he invented into thousands of Australians who abuse opioids. But is it an answer for America’s addiction crisis?
I’m not trying to depress anyone — especially recent graduates — but things are really bad, and what we need to do is act.
A Netflix series about the Central Park jogger case has led to intense criticism of the famous prosecutor-turned-novelist who oversaw the investigation.
The Trump administration will be ending a major university contract involving fetal tissue research and will soon stop such work at the National Institutes of Health.
The Trump administration will be ending a major university contract involving fetal tissue research and will soon stop such work at the National Institutes of Health.
Genetic analysis of ancient teeth and bones suggests Native Americans largely descend from a vanished group called the Ancient Paleo-Siberians.
For older women, walking as few as 4,500 steps a day reduced mortality compared with those who took only 2,700 steps a day.
Work colleges teach students that communities need all their members to pick up a shovel and participate.
“Ocean Cube,” an exhibition of five Instagramable dreamlike rooms, offers commentary on pollution.
Scientists reported the discovery in Australia of a plant-eating species, 35 years after a miner brought fossils to a museum in Sydney.
Mr. Leathers, 37, was a rising talent on New York’s straight-ahead jazz scene and had played on two Grammy-winning albums.
In a relaxed public interview, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected on his career and work at the Supreme Court.
In a relaxed public interview, Justice Clarence Thomas reflected on his career and work at the Supreme Court.
President Trump’s plans to increase tariffs on imports from Mexico and China would wipe out the benefits of his signature tax cuts for the poorest Americans, analyses show.
Just 2 percent of dentists were women when she joined their ranks, and “maybe 2 percent of that 2 percent” were black. She made it her goal to change that.
A new TV series from The New York Times is now on FX and Hulu.
Pam Belluck, a science reporter for The Times, recently discussed her reporting on surgical advancements for women who have experienced female genital cutting.
A mother who, along with her son, was featured in The New York Times’s new TV show expresses her gratitude.
The market for master’s degrees behaves in strange and erratic ways, new data reveals.
Dr. Peter Hotez has devoted his career to making vaccines more widely available. He routinely gets attacked for it.
The private school in Louisiana, once celebrated for helping underprivileged and minority students attend elite colleges, is now under federal investigation over its college applications.
An investigation at Ohio State University revealed that coaches had inklings of a team doctor’s sexual abuse. But Representative Jim Jordan’s denials are assuaging his constituents.
Cleared, then convicted of relationship violence in absentia, then cut from the N.F.L., Mumphery has once again been cleared. Now he needs a job.
A school made headlines for sending black students to elite campuses, but it was too good to be true.
The Massachusetts senator has emphasized her wealth tax on millionaires and defended her past stance on marijuana. Here’s a fact check.
A prominent surgeon and Howard University professor, he promoted awareness of the risks of cancer, particularly among African-Americans.
The phrase can’t remotely capture our ever-shifting digital experience, social scientists say. Say hello to the “screenome.”
We’ve got budget, retirement account, credit, information security and insurance advice for your independent adult, college student, gap-year taker or future soldier.
A new TV show from The Times places journalists’ expertise — and their inner conflicts — center stage.
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A total of 11 employers have been prosecuted for hiring undocumented workers over the past 12 months.
As a counter to staggering inequality, the system needs to be more open to the people who actually live in the Golden State.
Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?
Secret audio recordings provide an unfiltered look inside a children’s hospital where physicians warned that more patients seemed to fare poorly after heart surgery.
Secret recordings captured physicians’ concerns that more children seemed to fare poorly after heart surgery. Their hospital kept doing the operations.
The American University of Afghanistan is at risk of closing after United States government investigators said they could not account for $63 million in spending.
The lawsuit is the fourth of its kind filed against the university and the first since Ohio State released a report detailing how a former team doctor repeatedly assaulted males athletes.
Speaking at Hunter College commencement in New York City, Mrs. Clinton urged Americans to confront Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Efforts to publicly disclose the identities of women suing universities represent a more aggressive approach toward students, lawyers said.
A survival guide for spending the summer at your parents’ house.
Before 1919, cosmology was as subjective as art history. A solar eclipse, and a patent clerk’s equations, changed everything.
The algorithms know what we’ll do, but not why we do it. At least not yet.
When we asked people around the world what sort of financial burden they bore for their higher education, we heard how much it varies from country to country.
An education nonprofit says the tax on non-tuition college assistance is a poor reflection of our country’s values.