After Sylvia Carmel’s husband died last fall, she decided to try some of the activities at her retirement community in Towson, Md. “I do the exercise classes. I do the entertainment,” Carmel, 83, said ...

Swarthmore College and other small schools with large endowments caught a tax break last year, courtesy of the One Big Beautiful Bill championed by President Donald Trump. Now some school leaders plan ...

Logan Johnson did not want a traditional, campus setting in a college. “I wanted to do some sort of city, as far as college,” said Johnson, 22, of Warren, a small town in northwestern Pennsylvania. “I ...

Many of us, at one time or another, have been in situations where something someone said or did felt offensive, hurtful or dismissive. These can be subtle, often unintentional, comments, questions or ...

In the late 1940s—when computer engineers were grappling with unreliable hardware and noisy transmission environments—a team of engineers inside a modest lab at the University of Manchester, England, ...

The booming use of generative AI by students is leading to rising grade inflation at universities, according to a working paper published this week by the University of California, Berkeley. There are ...

The ultra-elite university has a mere $38 billion in endowment money. Many of its dorms lack air conditioning. And it’s in New Jersey. I kid about New Jersey, of course. Despite not being allowed to ...

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High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...

The late political scientist James C. Scott endorsed what he called “anarchist calisthenics”—the regular practice of small acts of lawbreaking and disobedience. Jaywalk at an empty intersection. Have ...

Students at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts walked out of class on Monday to protest what they describe as unfair and inconsistent enforcement of the school’s dress code.

Conversational AI led to self-reported benefits in a randomized trial of university students in distress. Improvements in anxiety and depression scores over 12 weeks were modest. No serious adverse ...