A new Gallup/Lumina Foundation poll finds that American’s confidence in higher education has dipped after a moderate uptick ...

Northeastern University’s president Joseph Aoun has some tough words for higher education in America. Having authored books like Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ...

The historian John R. Thelin on what has surprised him about academe’s recent “erosion” — and why he felt compelled to ...

Higher education is in crisis. To capture the full scope of the problem, The Heritage Foundation assembled college presidents, professors, and researchers from across the country to contribute their ...

Editor’s Note:The Trump administration’s October 2025 Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education sparked an overdue conversation about the relationship between universities and the federal ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. A young man, not quite 18, entered Williams College in the fall of ...

Higher education in America is in crisis. In response, the Trump Administration proposed a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” sent first to nine major universities. Most of the ...

In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, a documentary series hosted on USA Today highlights the organizations and industries continuing to drive innovative discoveries and breakthroughs. AMES, ...

Leading a major public university teaches you something the administrative class never quite grasps: Institutions are living things. Further, the people tasked with guiding them are obligated to pivot ...

As the Vietnam War raged overseas, a different kind of battle ignited on American soil. Thousands of students surged into action across college campuses — standing on window ledges of occupied ...