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Marty Meehan, the new president of the UMass system, spent his first day talking to students at the University of Massachusetts Boston. (Kirk Carapezza/WGBH).  Wednesday marked former Congressman Marty Meehan’s first day on the job as president of the University of Massachusetts. He’s the system’s 27th president, but its first graduate to lead the university. […]

Two of the nation’s top performing arts colleges are exploring a merger. Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory are considering a deal that would allow the schools to share faculty and curricula. The goal is ambitious — to create the most comprehensive, 21st century music and performing arts education in the world. Roger […]

What if your smart phone could predict your performance at school or work? Researchers at Dartmouth are perfecting an app that can tell students their GPAs, based on how and where they spend their time.

The world’s wealthiest university is getting a lot wealthier. Harvard University has received its largest gift ever: a $400 million dollar donation from hedge fund manager John Paulson to expand its engineering campus across the Charles River. Paulson is a Harvard Business School graduate who made one of the biggest fortunes in Wall Street history, […]

A group of more than 60 organizations has filed a complaint with the federal government claiming Harvard holds higher expectations for its Asian applicants than other minorities. The coalition is made up of nonprofit organizations, including Chinese, Pakistani and Indian groups, and it claims Harvard uses racial quotas to control the number of Asian-Americans on […]

In March, Sweet Briar College in rural Virginia announced that it would close because of insurmountable financial troubles. Since then, everyone in higher education has been wondering which college might be next. Just like a patient, a college has certain vital signs that show it might be in bad health. Two of those vital signs […]

Harvard Business School is bringing its legendary curriculum to liberal arts colleges – online. One of the world’s most prestigious business schools is expanding its digital learning initiative, HBX, a year after it launched. Last March HBS moved some of its introductory content online, trying to capture the energy of a real classroom through interactive […]

Students camped out Sunday night outside the president’s office at Harvard University. (Mallory Noe-Payne/WGBH). Students woke up Monday morning on the ground outside of Harvard University’s oldest building. They had spent the night there, protesting the university’s choice to invest part of its endowment in fossil-fuel companies. Students and climate change activists will gather in […]

Steve Coll, the dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, has published a comprehensive report on a Rolling Stone story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia. The report finds the magazine fell short on multiple counts, citing faulty reporting, editing and fact checking. According to the report, Rolling Stone failed to […]

Sixteen men’s basketball teams are still alive in the N.C.A.A. March Madness tournament, including No. 7 Wichita State which knocked off No. 2 Kansas over the weekend. Today March Madness brings to mind more than big upsets and broken brackets, though. The multi-billion-dollar college sports industry is increasingly answering questions about academic standards, player safety […]