The New York Times

The Jewish Days of Awe are meant to awaken us to the fact that life is finite. One student is attentive to that, all the time.

The Nashville-based university, which has just established a Manhattan outpost, has lots of New York area students and wants to take advantage of the city’s cultural capital.

Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.

Among this fall’s highlights: Memorials and a sculpture garden in Washington, a focus on pioneering Black architects, and design worth traveling for in Brussels and Mexico City.

Students in Singapore and parts of China had the highest scores on the test known as PISA. Scores for American students were near a 25-year low.

Under Lonnie G. Bunch III’s leadership, President Trump accused the Smithsonian of liberal, anti-American bias. Supporters say he was dedicated to nonpartisan scholarship.

The Netflix series is seen as a way to kindle debate about gender roles and to confront online bullying.

Schools and entire states are creating new rules forcing professors to teach more hours and show up at the office. At one university, professors quit in response.

The Justice and Education Departments said the school had penalized white and Asian applicants, the latest in a series of investigations into admissions at elite universities.

Jefferson County, Colo., is one of the few public school systems to sue the Trump administration over demands that it revoke transgender protections or face funding cuts.

The children at an Upper East Side Montessori program may never know why someone ripped their corn stalks from a sidewalk. But they turned it into an opportunity.

A new crop of college students is finding balance at daytime parties with yoga, saunas and cold plunges.