Universities

In the '70s and '80s, college students demanded divestment as a way to put pressure on South Africa to end its apartheid policy.

Their customer base is shrinking and there's no appetite for raising prices, aka tuition.

The Cato Institute found that the United States denied 35% of international student visas in 2022 — the highest denial percentage in decades.

Sometimes schools will take private scholarship money and subtract that from its institutional grant. It’s known as scholarship displacement, and a handful of states are passing laws to end it.

Harvard Med joins a number of prestigious schools boycotting the rankings, saying education is too complex to be ranked numerically.

International students are more likely to pay sticker price for a degree.

Distributing abortion medication requires resources that some schools may not have.

Notre Dame of Maryland University made the decision to admit male undergraduates next fall to boost enrollment.

Academics want it. Critics want to restrict it. The issue could affect a state's ability to recruit educators.

At the University of Utah, students can live with alumni. One California school is using a parking garage as a stopgap.