Society

Walt Whitman Would Have Hated DOGE

Trump’s cuts to the N.E.A. and the N.E.H. will leave America depleted.

Girls in Africa Aren’t Asking for Pity. They’re Asking ...

I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the W...

Where Are the Men in Boys’ Lives?

Jobs working with children are largely done by women, leaving many boys, especia...

Mamdani Once Claimed to Be Asian and African American. ...

Zohran Mamdani’s responses on a 2009 college application were criticized by his ...

How A.I. Could Make Us Dumber

It’s not an education if A.I. does your thinking for you.

Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on Col...

Zohran Mamdani, the Democrat running for mayor of New York City, was born in Uga...

Congress Passes a National School Voucher Program

The plan, part of the Republican domestic policy bill, includes all but the weal...

Wokeness Will Always Be With Us

A substitute religion, it offers a sense of moral superiority and group membership.

This Is the Birthright Reckoning That America Needs

What does it mean to be an American?

Columbia’s Acting President Apologizes for Texts Dispar...

Claire Shipman said she was “wrong” to have sent messages in 2023 and 2024 criti...

291 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Res...

Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in ...

Penn Agrees to Limit Participation of Transgender Athletes

In a deal with the Trump administration, the University of Pennsylvania will not...

What the University of Virginia Should Have Done

The university should have stood up to the Justice Department.

It’s About Power: The Supreme Court, the Judges and the...

Readers react to the Supreme Court decision on nationwide injunctions. Also: A r...

How Do You Teach Computer Science in the A.I. Era?

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of...

Rachel Kushner: Revisiting My Alma Mater U.C. Berkeley

My highly impressionable nature is part of why I found glorious U.C. Berkeley so...

I Cut Off My Conservative Parents When I Came Out as Gay

I had to cut off my conservative parents after I came out of the closet. But I w...

Are You Applying for Tech Jobs or Tech Internships? We ...

Companies using A.I. tools to automate tasks like coding are changing job prospe...

Can Donors Fill the Major Budget Holes Universities Fac...

In their fund-raising appeals, some schools are citing the vast sums in federal ...

How Simona Rodano, the ‘Italian Fairy,’ Teaches Childre...

Simona Rodano barely has time to strap on her sparkly wings before she dashes ar...

University of Virginia President Resigns Under Pressure...

The Justice Department had demanded that James E. Ryan step down in order to hel...

A Hospital Was in Critical Condition. Could $1.1 Billio...

University Hospital at Downstate in Brooklyn faces many of the problems plaguing...

Bolster the Building Blocks of Kindergarten

Readers respond to an Upshot article about expectations for kindergarten. Also: ...

A Look at Zohran Mamdani’s Stances on Key Issues

The state assemblyman ran a campaign tightly focused on issues related to afford...

They Had Come to Graduate. Their Minds Were on a Studen...

Dylan Lopez Contreras was arrested by immigration authorities. This week, he was...

P. Adams Sitney, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Film, D...

He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial brea...

Judge Blocks Trump Proclamation Barring Harvard’s Inter...

The same judge issued an order last week blocking a separate government effort t...

‘Are We Past Peak Harvard?’: 3 Writers Mull Higher Educ...

Pondering the politics of universities, and their future.

‘Justice Will Prevail,’ Mahmoud Khalil Says as He Goes ...

Mr. Khalil, a Columbia graduate, had been held in Louisiana for over three month...

Detention Is Over for Students Trump Seeks to Deport. N...

An effort to expel students the administration says are a national security thre...

Timed Tests Don’t Measure Aptitude, They Measure Speed ...

We are honoring the Top 10 winners of our Student Open Letter Contest by publish...

The Things College Students Leave Behind

Readers reflect on salvaging what college students don’t take home. Also: Poetry...

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. ...

Limits on travel and visa appointments have delayed or prevented foreign doctors...

A.I. in the Classroom: A Brave New World?

Readers offer differing perspectives on artificial intelligence on campus. Also:...

What the Fed’s Rate Decision Means for Loans, Credit Ca...

Here’s how the central bank’s interest rate stance influences car loans, credit ...

Why a Teacher of the Year Is Giving His Prize Money Away

Alhassan Susso, who teaches in the Bronx, is funding a teaching prize in Gambia,...

They Said She Was Home-Schooled. She Said She Was Locke...

A teenage girl fled her home last month after what she said was years of abuse. ...

Negotiation or Capitulation? How Columbia Got Off Trump...

The university has largely complied with the administration’s demands, but has a...

Judge Temporarily Blocks Trump’s Order Curtailing Forei...

The same federal judge also extended her block on another attempt by the adminis...

Revoking the Visas of Chinese Students in the U.S. Is a...

Canceling the visas of Chinese students in the United States is a horrible idea.

Why Do Dads Want to Be Gods When They Can Just Be Good ...

Fatherhood should revolve around listening and accompanying, not teaching.

What International Students Bring to Campuses

Readers respond to a guest essay about the effects of having foreign students at...

I’m No Godlike Father After All

Fatherhood should revolve around listening and accompanying, not teaching.

Should Boys Start Kindergarten a Year Later Than Girls?

The idea, known as “redshirting,” has downsides, but proponents say it could hel...

At National History Day, Students Get Competitive About...

Americans are fighting about history. This past week, thousands of students from...

Why Did Syracuse Offer $200,000 in Merit Aid to Teens W...

The university seems to have misjudged what some families would pay. Next year, ...

Dimming America’s Beacons to the World

Readers respond to articles about setbacks to the Fulbright program and Voice of...

Good News for College Students: You May See a Dip in St...

A small decline in interest rates on federal loans for next school year is the f...

Betty Jean Hall, Who Fought for Coal-Mining Jobs for Wo...

She was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with dis...

Bill Lucy, Pioneering Labor and Civil Rights Leader, Di...

He helped popularize “I Am a Man” as a demand for respect during the 1968 strike...