The Weekly Dispatch

Instead of going to college in a pandemic, QuangHuy Bui became a barber. As colleges turn campus life back on this fall, will students like him return to school?

Year after year of insider appointments to Mississippi’s higher-ed governing board, Molly Minta writes, “not only raise ethical questions but are indicative of a system of favoritism that excludes the historically Black colleges and universities.”

There are gaps not just in where higher ed is being covered but also in what is being covered. So we’re excited to announce that this summer we’ll be hiring three national reporters to cover critical topics that are under-scrutinized.

There’s a shift underway—and whether it ends up being seismic or something smaller, it has major implications for the way we educate and prepare people for careers.

The relationship between cities and their universities is interdependent, but very imbalanced. Some mayors hope the pandemic could change that.

What do we make of a year like 2020? Oral historians in Santa Cruz are starting by documenting first-hand accounts of students and staff at the University of California.

A battle over how one of the nation's best high schools selects students is stirring passionate debates about immigrant dreams, the notion of "spurious precision," the case for "collective merit," and race.

Even after graduation, divides between first-generation college students and others remain.