This article, written by investigative journalism students at the University of Massachusetts, is presented as part of a larger series addressing issu...

This article, written by investigative journalism students at the University of Massachusetts, is presented as part of a larger series addressing issu...

-- A lawyer for a Maryland college is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a man attacked on campus by a baseball bat-wielding student, say...

My top priority -- of course -- is to protect the young people who study here, our faculty and staff, and all the many thousands of concert visitors we have every year. But this mandate necessitates negotiating a way through a challenging Scylla and Charybdis of choices.

Campus tragedies in recent years have led to improvements in the resources, and training campus police, security and other emergency responders are afforded, but we owe them -- and the investment we make in education -- more.

The University of California, Berkeley decided campus police shouldn't have a military-style armored vehicle. The UC Police Department sought to us...

Sexual violence diminishes the value of the more than $40 billion taxpayers invest in federal student aid for higher education every school year. Many women who are the victim of a completed or attempted rape interrupt or even end their education as a result.

Colleges are actually extraordinarily safe places, with the majority of experts espousing that the relative lack of guns is precisely what makes them havens from violent crimes.