Scott Smallwood

With new partners, we’re adding more higher-ed reporting in Texas and Pennsylvania.

Every year, for decades now, college presidents and education journalists have met in New York City for a grand dinner to talk about the pressing issues facing higher education. This year, of course, we gathered on Zoom. Little squares of people beaming in across the time zones, fending for ourselves for dinner (I, for one, […]

What do conduct policies say about the relationship colleges have with players?

What’s the right balance between the two narratives: students are recklessly partying vs. colleges never should have brought them back?

There are risks to reopening but also risks to not bringing students back, especially if they’re from communities at risk.

July could end up being one of the worst months American higher education has experienced.

Surveys taken pre-covid show how some Americans viewed higher education.

As college enrollments have fallen in recent years, so has student borrowing — especially sharply at for-profit colleges, which have gone through a tumultuous decade. They may now be on the rebound.

#BlackInTheIvory tells black academics: You are not alone. It tells everyone else: It’s time to act.

Sixty percent of the students in the top 200 colleges come from the top quartile of family income.