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Smith College has long upheld progressive values, urging its students to root out racism and injustice wherever they see it. Recently, that's included Smith’s own School for Social Work, where some faculty are raising questions about whether administrators have gone too far in responding to students' demands.

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.

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.

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. 

Speaking in his hometown of Cambridge on Friday, actor Matt Damon addressed graduates at MIT’s commencement ceremony.

Race isn't a new issue on college campuses, but American higher education is increasingly grappling with how to acknowledge and memorialize its ties to racism and slavery. Some say that recognition can be a slippery slope.

It's graduation season, and schools across New England are preparing for their commencement exercises. This year, commencement speakers at Boston-area colleges include governors, actors, news media personalities and others. 

President Barack Obama’s daughter Malia will attend Harvard University in 2017 - but not before taking what's called a “gap year.” The first family’s announcement comes at a time when elite private schools are encouraging students to postpone the start of college.

Free speech is fast becoming a hot-button issue at colleges across the country, with campus protests often mirroring those of the public-at-large on issues such as racism or tackling institution-specific matters such as college governance. On the surface, the issue of campus free speech may seem like a purely legal concern, yet in reality, colleges should also treat it as a public relations problem.

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.