The New York Times

Musicians have a special tendency to elevate their teachers to divine status. It’s the worst thing a serious artist can do.

The federal government has slowed Harvard’s funding, despite the university’s legal victories. The conflict is forcing hard choices on campus.

After loosening requirements during the Covid era, some schools are shaking up admissions again, facing pressure from the Trump administration, A.I. and even their own professors.

I traveled around the country to find out if “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” still has a place in the classroom.

Companies like Google and Microsoft have used their money, their might and their massive reach to influence nearly every step of the education supply chain.

To create a new $699 bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. versions of its faculty.

Ghent University in Belgium said it suspended the professor, Nathan Cofnas, pending an investigation.

New York City says the Council’s legislation violates collective bargaining law. The dispute could set up the first high-profile battle between the mayor and a public sector union.

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

Families are betting their savings on private universities as a path to a better life. A shortage of well-paying work is turning that wager into frustration.

In an usual move, Congress worsened terms for some existing borrowers. Now they’ll have to pay more, and for a longer term.

The agreement settles lawsuits filed by relatives of people whose remains, donated for medical research and teaching, were stolen and sold by the former manager of the school’s medical morgue.

A former Justice Department lawyer says Trump administration leaders ignored findings that elite schools, including Brown and Columbia, hadn’t broken the law as they pressed them into deals.