Colleges & Universities

Tens of thousands of University of California workers on Wednesday walked off the job for a two-day strike over wages and conditions at their medical facilities and campuses. Kris Sanchez reports.

Tens of thousands of University of California workers on Wednesday walked off the job for a two-day strike over wages and conditions at their medical facilities and campuses.

Students, faculty and community members protested outside the site of the University of California Board of Regents meeting Tuesday morning in San Francisco.

Students, faculty and community members protested outside the site of the University of California Board of Regents meeting Tuesday morning in San Francisco. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

One person is dead and “several” were injured after a homecoming weekend shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama early Sunday morning. In a statement, the university said “a non-university individual” was killed and several others, including students, were injured in the shooting.

Forbes ranks Stanford University at No. 2 and UC Berkeley at No. 5 in its annual top American colleges list, with both schools moving up one position from last year’s ranking.

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Although more students are eligible for federal aid this year, rising college costs and ballooning student debt balances are still major concerns.

Several Illinois and midwestern colleges and universities landed in U.S. News & World Report’s newest ranking of “Best Colleges” for 2025, with many moving up spots on the prestigious list.

The unidentified student is accused of carving the epithet using a box cutter at an on-campus swim team gathering.

People who received identical bachelor degrees in the same major earned vastly different salaries depending on which school they attended, Payscale reports.

Sweet Briar College in Virginia has instituted an admissions policy that bars transgender women next school year.

At St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, officials announced a plan to cut 42 degree programs and 50 minors, music among them. The move has created turmoil for students who chose the campus to study music.

The $2.78 billion deal settles several lawsuits claiming that previous NCAA rules denied thousands of athletes the opportunity to earn millions of dollars off the use of their names, images and likenesses.

Dartmouth College has suspended a fraternity and a sorority as the investigation continues into the death of a student whose body was found Sunday in the Connecticut River after a party nearby the night before, the school said. Won Jang, 20, of Middletown, Delaware, had been reported missing late Sunday afternoon after the gathering Saturday night, a Dartmouth official said….

Longtime San Jose City College basketball coach Percy Carr has died. Carr coached at the college for more than 45 years. During that time, he collected 900 career wins, the most in California community college history.

De Anza College leaders say they’ve seen a wave of thousands of potentially fraudulent applications.

A slew of fraudulent applications have made their way into De Anza College’s system. Alyssa Goard reports how the community college is dealing with the issue. 

The University of Virginia will pay $9 million in a settlement related to a 2022 campus shooting that killed three football players.

For the second time in as many weeks, classes at University of California, Santa Cruz are being held online due to a pro-Palestinian protest that is blocking the two main campus entrances.