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Chapel Hill faculty members were caught off guard in January by what sounded like the return of a proposed conservative campus center. They objected, but the university is moving forward. Nearly 700 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty members signed a letter last month criticizing, among other things, the university’s proposed School of Civic Life and Leadership.

Bard College president Leon Botstein met with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions, raising thorny ethical questions about accepting donations. When Bard College president Leon Botstein first met financier Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein was a convicted and registered sex offender.

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Students can get stuck at the level of information-sharing. Here’s how to help them pass it.

The University of Idaho acknowledged past problems at the University of Phoenix but said the school has recently worked to improve its reputation.

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Administrators at the University of Maryland (UMD) are telling students to stop giving so many offerings to its mascot statue amid a dangerous pileup of trash and stolen items.

On the next Charlotte Talks... the potential impact of artificial intelligence on education. It’s here, growing quickly and its appearance in the classroom is inevitable. We look at the pros and cons.

To capitalize on the benefits of paid internships, two university systems have created funds to support students who might not otherwise seek such opportunities. At Binghamton University, the Summer Scholars and Artists program has long allowed a small group of students to spend their summers on campus working under the instruction of a faculty mentor—composing operas, say, or studying local fauna—for a stipend.

India sent more students to study in the U.S. in 2022 while China sent fewer, the Hindustan Times reported. In 2022, California hosted 225,173 international students, the Times reported, the largest percentage of any U.S. state. Read more about the trends and the numbers in the Times story. (May...