Yet, higher education has shaped the American experiment from the beginning. Enlightenment ideas studied in 18th-century ...

“The 1776 report,” Civil War historian Kevin Levin wrote,” views students as sponges who are expected to absorb a narrative ...

The busts of US Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln tower over the Black ...

While the Ivy League has gotten most of the attention, UVA is among public schools under investigation for their diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which the Trump administration sees as ...

The commonwealth now faces a future in which its most prominent state university bowed to federal pressure and sacrificed its ...

Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

The blows keeping coming, from the end of affirmative action to outright interference in who leads college campuses.

President Trump’s renewed push to add his face to Mount Rushmore faces overwhelming obstacles. Geologists warn that the ...

A merican presidents have met their end in virtually every way known to human beings, some suddenly in hails of gunfire, some ...

Ousting James Ryan is a dramatic escalation in the Trump administration’s war against higher ed and sends a chilling message ...

Here’s what Virginia politicians are saying about the forced resignation of University of Virginia President James Ryan.