Entries in On Campus by Kirk Carapezza

Georgetown University will offer an edge in admissions to the descendants of slaves sold in the 1800s to keep the university financially afloat. The Catholic university announced Wednesday that it is taking several steps to recognize and memorialize the Catholic university’s past, including the creation of a center for the study of slavery and the construction of a memorial to the 272 slaves sold in 1838.

In her latest book, Student Debt: Rhetoric and Realities of Higher Education Financing, Sandy Baum argues that the student loan debt "crisis" isn't as bad as we're often led to believe.

The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that graduate students who work as teaching and research assistants at private universities may be eligible to unionize. 

Suffolk University is still reeling after the university's Board of Trustees voted last month to abruptly fire President Margaret McKenna, who had already agreed to resign. Suffolk has burned through five presidents in five years. By any account, that's a lot of break-ups. But Suffolk isn't alone; the problems there represent broader relationship issues between presidents and their boards.

How to Stage a Revolution; The Joy of Garbage; Zombies in Popular Media; The Sociology of Miley Cyrus: Those are just some of the options available to students in the expanding menu of college courses. But that has not always been the case. 

Hillary Clinton’s alma mater is eager to see the first woman in American history officially accept the presidential nominee of a major political party. After Clinton accepts the nomination Thursday night in Philadelphia, Wellesley College is also expecting a bump.

This month, Doctor David Podell takes the helm at Massachusetts Bay Community College. For the past eight years, he was the vice president for Academic Affairs at Marymount Manhattan College in New York.

As part of our Leaders in Higher Education series, On Campus' Kirk Carapezza  caught up with Podell on campus in Wellesley and asked him how his previous experience at a private college prepared him for his new job.

Seventeen months after voting to form a union, part-time teachers at Bentley University have reached an agreement with administrators, averting a protest scheduled for Monday.

Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential search has created some buzz in the Boston area, where a university dean was being vetted for the democratic ticket. With Clinton’s vice presidential pick imminent Friday or Saturday, Tufts dean Admiral James Stavridis was on the presumptive democratic presidential nominee’s shortlist.

With millions of college students struggling to pay back their student loans, federal officials are creating new protections for borrowers. The U.S. Education Department is setting higher customer service standards for companies that collect student loans.