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The Brearley School in Manhattan announced that all applicants who consider themselves female were welcome to apply, following a similar decision by the Spence School.

He wanted to study with Yehuda Gilad, whose students fill many U.S. orchestra positions. He won large damages from his (now ex-) girlfriend.

Personal ratings brought down Asian-American applicants’ chances of being admitted, according to an analysis filed by a group suing the school for bias.

New businesses are cropping up to help college graduates find a meaningful job, but the services don’t come cheap.

In his 10 years at National Public Radio, Mr. Bennet brought financial stability to the organization, which had been on shaky fiscal ground.

The candidate for governor of New York called for a big increase in school funding and for free tuition for 170,000 at public colleges.

The University of New Hampshire will be the first flagship state school to accept scores from the Chinese university entrance exam as a basis for admission.

Current policies and programs have failed overwhelmingly to address and prevent the problem, said a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Dr. Faust, a historian and the outgoing president of Harvard, was cited for work exploring “themes of deep relevance to our national conversation on race and gender.”

Members of an engineering fraternity seen on video uttering racial slurs and miming sexual assault were punished unfairly, their defenders say.

Members of an engineering fraternity seen on video uttering racial slurs and miming sexual assault were punished unfairly, their defenders say.

At Radio City Music Hall, Melody Herzfeld said that receiving the excellence in theater education prize was a “defining moment” in her life.

Dr. Berlin’s deeply researched books showed that slavery and its aftermath were far more complex than most people realized.

The dress code is decidedly anti-dress code, students qualified for prom king and queen based on which category they chose, and more than one student sported a “pan flag.”

We’d love to see a photograph from your night and hear what you loved, and didn’t love, about it.

He shared the 1997 prize in chemistry for his work on understanding how organisms get energy from their environments and process it to stay alive.

He persuaded the New York State Regents to pass more rigorous academic standards for high school graduation.

Readers shared pearls of wisdom they wish they had heard as a 20-something.

Higher education is struggling to balance the demand by some students to be protected from offensive speech while guaranteeing freedom of speech to others.

Schools that traded history and government for more science and technology are rethinking the calculation, hoping to create a new generation of activists.