Superintendent Dr. Errick Greene on the first day of school in Jackson, Miss. His first stop: North Jackson Elementary School. Jeffrey Pierre | NPR More than 50 million children are slowly returning to classrooms for the new school year — the third year in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Stanley Andrisse says his 21-year-old self, who was once facing 20 years to life in prison, could never have imagined his life today: Andrisse is now an endocrinologist, scientist and professor at Howard University's College of Medicine. He has a Ph.D., an MBA, and a lab full of students who ...

An ITT Technical Institute campus in Rancho Cordova, Calif., is seen on Sept. 6, 2016. Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Tech as far back as 2005 will automatically get that debt canceled. Rich Pedroncelli | AP WASHINGTON — Students who used federal loans to attend ITT Technical ...

Students on campus at the University of Michigan. Elissa Nadworny | NPR Millions of students are heading back to college for their third full academic year since the COVID pandemic hit. But as students move into their dorms and sign up for classes this year, things are different. On many ...

Morehouse College is one of several historically Black colleges and universities seeing a surge in applications and enrollments in recent years. Mike Stewart | AP A number of historically Black colleges and universities are seeing an increase in Black students applying and enrolling after years of decline. "The percentage of ...

Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill., is prepared to help students isolate if they test positive for monkeypox. Courtesy of Lake Forest College Andrea Conner has become "the accidental COVID Czar" of Lake Forest College, a small school north of Chicago where she serves as dean of students. "When ...

Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, the George Washington University law school received calls to drop Justice Clarence Thomas and cancel the seminar he taught. Erin Schaff, The New York Times | AP Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has told George Washington University that he won't ...

The share of Americans who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country has declined since 2020, according to recent survey. Seth Wenig | AP The share of Americans who believe colleges and universities have a positive impact on the country has dropped by 14 percentage points ...

LA Johnson | NPR Updated August 5, 2022 at 3:23 PM ET Update: On Thursday, a federal judge in San Francisco granted preliminary approval of a settlement that would cancel the loans of more than 200,000 student borrowers who say they were defrauded by their colleges. It's the latest development ...

Statue of Denmark Vesey at Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C. Formerly enslaved, Vesey bought his freedom with money he was allowed to earn and winnings from a lottery ticket, and he planned an insurrection to kill slaveholders and free Black people on July 14, 1822. Victoria Hansen/ SC Public Radio ...