How a Yale Student’s Rape Accusation Exposed Her to a Defamation Lawsuit
The woman’s allegation led to the expulsion of Saifullah Khan, who was acquitted in a criminal trial. His lawsuit is now challenging these disciplinary hearings.
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Creditan Rong Xu for The New York Times With a New Formula, U.S. News Rankings Boost Some State Universities
Responding to critics, the publication made its biggest changes to its method in four decades. But it’s unclear whether that is enough to quiet the naysayers.
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CreditThe New York Times Explore How Income Influences Attendance at 139 Top Colleges
Unlike many elite colleges, most flagship public colleges are “pretty fair in who gets in.”
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CreditBrendan Bannon for The New York Times A Professor’s Remarks on Sexual Consent Stir Controversy. Now He’s Banned From Campus.
Stephen Kershnar, who teaches philosophy, is suing for the right to return to SUNY at Fredonia. The university defends its ban as necessary for safety.
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CreditJim Wilson/The New York Times Why Colleges Can’t Quit the U.S. News Rankings
Dozens of law and medical schools decided not to cooperate in the ratings juggernaut anymore. But few undergraduate schools followed.
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CreditEvelyn Freja for The New York Times Amid Reading Wars, Teachers College Will Close a Star Professor’s Shop
Lucy Calkins ran a beloved — and criticized — center at Teachers College for four decades. It is being dissolved.
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CreditAlisha Jucevic for The New York Times D.E.I. Statements Stir Debate on College Campuses
Yoel Inbar, a psychology professor, thought he might be teaching at U.C.L.A., but his reservations about diversity statements got him in trouble.
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Credit We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went.
A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.
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CreditGabriele Holtermann-Gorden/Sipa, via Associated Press Images Applying to N.Y.C. Public Schools Can Feel Daunting. Here’s What to Know.
What matters when choosing a school? How should you compare options? And what’s the best strategy for getting your first choice?
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CreditJoe Buglewicz for The New York Times At Yale, a Surge of Activism Forced Changes in Mental Health Policies
For decades, the university required students seeking medical leaves to withdraw and reapply. A campus suicide set off a cascade of revisions.
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CreditKendrick Brinson for The New York Times Ban or Embrace? Colleges Wrestle With A.I.-Generated Admissions Essays.
A.I. chatbots could facilitate plagiarism on college applications or democratize student access to writing help. Or maybe both.
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CreditSue Ogrocki/Associated Press Tulsa Schools, Under Threat of Takeover, Retain Control for Now
The schools in left-leaning Tulsa have been at the center of a campaign by Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Republican superintendent.
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CreditChristopher Capozziello for The New York Times Yale’s President Announces He Will Step Down
Peter Salovey has increased the university’s endowment and its diversity. But the school faces the end of affirmative action and a push to end legacy admissions.
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CreditKenny Holston/The New York Times Where’s ‘Woke’? Republicans Test a Different Education Message
Ron DeSantis rose to prominence in part on his “anti-woke” agenda, especially when it comes to education. In some settings, culture-war messaging seems to be receding.
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CreditHannah Yoon for The New York Times Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough.
As school began this year, we sent reporters to find out how much — or how little — has changed since the pandemic changed everything.
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CreditErin Kirkland for The New York Times At the Edge of a Cliff, Some Colleges Are Teaming Up to Survive
Faced with declining enrollment, smaller schools are harnessing innovative ideas — like course sharing — to attract otherwise reluctant students.
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CreditIke Abakah for The New York Times Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching
The concept has been around for a while, but the pandemic reinforced the importance of providing support to families and students to enhance learning.
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CreditJason Andrew for The New York Times Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss?
In-school tutoring is not a silver bullet. But it may help students and schools reduce some pandemic-related slides in achievement.
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CreditMonika Aichele Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home
From kindergarten through college, educators are experimenting with ways to ease the stress students are facing — not only from the pandemic, but from life itself.
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Changes Bring Friction, and Lawsuits, to Florida College Targeted by DeSantis
Competitive sports are in, gender-neutral bathrooms are out after Florida vowed to turn New College, a public school, into a bastion of conservatism.
By Patricia Mazzei
Alabama School Band Director Says Police Used a Taser to Stop the Music
Johnny Mims, Minor High School’s band director, was arrested during a confrontation in which he refused to stop his band from playing after their team won.
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Is College Worth It?
The new economics of higher education make going to college a risky bet.
By Michael Barbaro, Michael Simon Johnson, Summer Thomad, Carlos Prieto, Devon Taylor, Lisa Chow, Will Reid, Dan Powell and Chris Wood
Temple University’s Acting President Dies After Becoming Ill Onstage
JoAnne A. Epps, who was appointed in April, was taken to a hospital after she became ill at a memorial service on the university’s campus in Philadelphia.
By Eduardo Medina
Anti-Affirmative Action Group Sues West Point Over Admissions Policy
The Supreme Court ruling barring race-conscious admissions at civilian colleges should apply to the U.S. Military Academy as well, the lawsuit argues.
By Anemona Hartocollis
California TodayHow California Universities Fared in Revamped Rankings
Fresno State and U.C. Merced enjoyed some of the biggest increases in the standings.
By Soumya Karlamangla
One of America’s First Women’s Colleges Is Accused of Paying Men More
Vassar, which is coeducational now, has maintained a gender-based pay gap for two decades, current and former female professors say in a recently filed lawsuit.
By Sharon Otterman and Erin Nolan
Principals Made and Shared Meme of a Student’s Exposed Breast, Lawsuit Says
“I was infuriated,” the mother of the student said. “I was angry, and I’ve been angry ever since.” A lawyer for one of the principals claims his client had nothing to do with the meme.
By Eduardo Medina
Ross DouthatIs ‘Peak Woke’ Behind Us or Ahead?
What ideological policing looks like now and perhaps in the future.
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In Texas, a Black High School Student Is Suspended Over His Hair Length
A Texas school district said that the student’s hair, even when pinned, violated dress code. The district said the suspension did not violate a new law banning race-based hair discrimination.
By Christine Hauser
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