DeVos Says She Will Revisit Obama-Era Sexual Assault Policies

After a “really emotionally draining day“ of meeting with victims and those accused of sexual assault, the education secretary made her first public comments on the issue.

Harvard Panel Suggests Ending a Tradition: Exclusive Clubs

By JESS BIDGOOD July 12, 2017 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University’s social scene may be in for a dramatic change. A committee of faculty and staff members and students has suggested that numerous exclusive social clubs — including the...

Campus Rape Policies Get a New Look as the Accused Get DeVos’s Ear

By ERICA L. GREEN and SHERYL GAY STOLBERG July 12, 2017 WASHINGTON — The letters have come in to her office by the hundreds, heartfelt missives from college students, mostly men, who had been accused of rape or sexual assault. Some...

Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri

By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS July 9, 2017 COLUMBIA, Mo. — In the fall of 2015, a grassy quadrangle at the center of the University of Missouri became known nationwide as the command center of an escalating protest. Students complaining of official inaction...

Summer Reading Books: The Ties That Bind Colleges

By DANA GOLDSTEIN July 1, 2017 Ohio State, the football-mad university of more than 60,000 students, could hardly be more different from Williams College, the prestigious liberal arts school in the Berkshires, or Loyola University Maryland, a Catholic...

Out of High School, Into Real Life

Out of High School, Into Real Life By JACK HEALY June 23, 2017 By JACK HEALY June 23, 2017 The high school gym swirled with blue-and-white graduation gowns and glittering dreams. Some seniors had won university scholarships. Others were counting on...