It was one of those unrepeatable May days, as the novelist Richard Powers once called them. The end of a college semester, especially the spring semester, is always a strange time, jovial yet tense, the electricity of change thick in the air. Friends and strangers are about to scatter for...

The charges are revolting.

Sodomy. Rape. Molestation. All of young boys. Over the span of a decade. By a respected -- celebrated -- Penn State University official.

Contained in a 23-page grand jury report, they tell the story of a famed athletic program with a dark, dark...

Before I went to Egypt last May, I had never been to the Middle East. I spoke not a word of Arabic. Like most everyone else, I’d been gripped by the revolution that swelled in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for 18 days that winter. I packed my bag with...

$24,000.

That's the average student debt in America, according to a report last year from the Project on Student Debt.

For many students, that figure is modest. Take Aleesha Nash, a graduate of New York University. "Logging into the Federal Student Aid website,"...

There are 105 historically black colleges and universities in the United States, out of nearly 5,000 colleges in total. These schools -- some of which were established before the Civil War -- carry on legacies of service and influence, with an aim to educate future African-American leaders.

In recent years,...

It's Murphy's Law: The minute you load Facebook on your work browser, your boss will visit your desk to see what you're up to and you'll surely be cemented in his or her mind as a lazy, social-network obsessed young thing.

But now there's a solution -- the website...

Paige Lavender was in math class when a friend ran in and said four ominous words: "We're going to war." It was Sept. 11, 2001. Two planes had just careened into the World Trade Center. Lavender was in the 7th grade.

Sunday, Lavender, now a senior at West Virginia University,...

Student loan debt will probably exceed $1 trillion this year as Congress threatens to slash federal aid, the New York Times reports.

Earlier this year, the House proposed numerous cuts to the Pell Grant Program, which has not been able to keep up with...

William Cronon, the bearded, bespectacled Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin, is not an outwardly threatening figure. His main topic of intrigue is the American West and his blog, Scholar as Citizen, explores the "public practice...

OAKLAND -- Salary notwithstanding, Mark Yudof has had a tough couple of years.

Yudof, the president of the vast University of California system, walked into a spectacular mess when he started his job there almost three years ago, and it hasn't gotten better.

Accustomed to being revered on other campuses,...

One year ago, HuffPost College launched with a series called "Majoring in Debt," featuring the stories of nine students and graduates carrying massive student loan burdens on their shoulders. There was Sara Tobin, a Tulane student who said that the value of her childhood home was...

Saad Nabeel doesn't get much sleep these days. Holed up in an undisclosed location in Malaysia, the lanky 20-year-old spends his nights furtively working to bring himself back to America, the only home he's ever known.

Born in Bangladesh, Nabeel moved to California with his parents at age three, and...

China is expanding a student spy network that works to ensure campus stability by watching students and teachers, a new CIA report (PDF) details.

The Student Information System was formed after the Tienanmen Square protests of 1989 to monitor and control political debate on campuses. Originally established at...

John F. Kennedy's Harvard application shows just how far college admissions have come in the last 75 years.

The 26-page document, recently released by the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, lacks praise for the young Choate student. The future president is described by a family friend as...

New documents from the school of Arizona gunman Jared Loughner illustrate a deeply disturbed young man who confused his teachers and classmates with his strange, often incomprehensible behavior.

The confidential documents, obtained by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, indicate that...

Pima Community College acted appropriately in mandating that Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner obtain a mental exam, according to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Loughner, 22, has been charged in the Saturday shooting of 19 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. He dropped out of Pima in October after the...

Should schools be compelled to give troubled students mental health support? It's a chilling and complex question that comes to light as as a patchwork portrait of Tucson shooter Jared Loughner emerges.

We know that Loughner's behavior so bothered his classmates and professors at Pima Community College that...

What does it take to get into an elite college? It's a question I'm often asked -- by parents, students, friends, colleagues, pets, celebrities, grocery store cashiers, actuaries and the like.

Well, I say, it helps to speak several languages, and play a Renaissance instrument (but not the lute, too...

The lawyer representing David Epstein, the Columbia professor accused of sleeping with his daughter, recently spoke out about his client's controversial case.

Epstein was charged last week with one-count of third-degree incest for what was allegedly a consensual three-year sexual relationship with his 24-year-old daughter.

Epstein's lawyer, Matthew...

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)-- A Florida man accused of using Facebook to harass Louisiana State University sorority pledges and pressure them into sending him nude pictures over the Internet also is a suspect in other states, authorities said Friday.

LSU campus police officers and Florida Department...