Entries in On Campus by Kirk Carapezza

A Pew Research Center study out this week shows that Americans with college degrees are to the left of the majority without a degree. And post-grads who become professors are even left of that. Some conservative professors at Wellesley College are pushing their left-leaning students out of their comfort zones.

Schools in the college capital of the world are preparing for commencement season. With all the pomp and circumstance is likely to come another annual ritual: rescinded invitations to controversial speakers. Free speech advocates argue that those disinvitations and other forms of censorship are preventing the type of rigorous debate that should be taking place on America’s campuses.

Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and the state's higher education leaders on Thursday announced a new college affordability plan designed to increase graduation rates by lowering tuition and fees for students who transfer from community college to a state university.

Public research universities educate 75 percent of all undergraduates in this country. But over the past decade, state appropriations to flagship research universities have plummeted 34 percent. Now public research universities have found an unlikely advocate.

Responding to student activists who say divestment from fossil fuel companies would address global climate change, administrators at the University of Massachusetts are pledging to advocate for divestment.

New England is facing a labor shortage of skilled carpenters, welders, engineers, and plumbers. Experts say part of the problem is that the U.S. is sending far too many people down the primrose path to college. That’s why some educators, employers and unions are trying to convince more young women to go into the trades.

The National Labor Relations Board has rejected a bid by Tufts Medical School professors to unionize.

In an essay published in Harvard’s student-run newspaper The Crimson, Harvard President Drew Faust wrote the university must recognize its ties to the slave trade. But students and historians think Harvard and other institutions should do more than acknowledging its history.

Thousands of students who attended what was once one of this country's largest for-profit colleges now have a clear path to debt relief. The U.S. Education Department on Friday announced it will forgive federal student loans for many students who enrolled at Corinthian Colleges.

The Obama administration is shining a spotlight on colleges and universities that increase access and improve outcomes for poor students, months after abandoning its plan to rank higher education institutions. The U.S. Education Department on Thursday released a new report celebrating colleges that enroll and graduate students from all backgrounds