Entries in On Campus by Kirk Carapezza

There’s a lot in the news about college presidents grappling with diversity, race and ethnicity. But Ronald Liebowitz heads a campus established nearly 70 years ago as a national model of ethnic and religious pluralism. This month, Liebowitz became the ninth leader of Brandeis, a private research university that considers social justice central to its mission. 

As part of our series of conversations with leaders in higher education, On Campus' Kirk Carapezza sat down with Liebowitz before his official first day on campus in Waltham. 

Students at the University of Massachusetts can expect higher tuition bills next fall. Confronted with a budget gap of millions, the UMass Board of Trustees today voted to hike tuition across all five campuses by 5.8 percent.

Admiral James Stavridis, dean of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, is being vetted as a potential vice president for Hillary Clinton. Back in 2014, Stavridis told WGBH's On Campus that as countries like China, India, and Russia are on the rise, new challenges lie ahead. 

This month, Dr. Paula Johnson officially leaves the field of medicine to become the first African American president of Wellesley College. As part of our series with leaders in higher education, Dr. Johnson sat down with WGBH's Kirk Carapezza during her first day on the job. 

Hillary Clinton spoke at Portsmouth High School Tuesday, receiving Bernie Sander’s endorsement and pushing her revised college affordability plan, which now closely resembles Sanders’ plan.

This summer, the University of Massachusetts Amherst is partnering with a private company to recruit and enroll more international students. The flagship campus is finalizing the deal amid criticism that it's accepting too many out-of-state students.

Not many college presidents come from outside the Ivory Towers. Jeff Weiss, who took the helm at Lesley University on July 1 is one of the few.  

A report released Thursday finds nearly all jobs created since the Great Recession went to workers with at least some college education -- a trend is surfacing in our national politics.

On Thursday, a federal panel recommended that the U.S. Department of Education close one of the country’s largest accreditors of for-profit colleges, bringing it one step closer to shutting down. 

In a 4-3 decision, the United States Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the use of race in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin. Colleges and universities that had filed amicus briefs in the case of Fisher v. University of Texas are welcoming the decision.