Specialized Colleges

Atlanta HBCU spent nearly 20 years limping along without access to federal financial aid funding. Then its board chair gave an ultimatum: get on a path to accreditation or close.

Students are showing more interest in health-related education. Experts say it's not just about Anthony Fauci.

Education Department says the university's business school lied to U.S. News repeatedly -- to gain No. 1 spot in online rankings and to attract students.

Schools are waiving testing requirements, dropping application fees and extending application deadlines.

While it hasn't gotten much attention, Biden's campaign pledge to deal with the long-standing disparity in research grants encourages HBCUs.

Teacher education programs were facing major problems even before the pandemic, but are they dying of natural causes or being killed off? Either way, what's lost when they go away for good?

With little internet access and disproportionate impacts from COVID-19, tribal colleges had to redesign everything they do in the spring.

HBCUs are getting high student compliance with social distancing and mask wearing and are reporting lower coronavirus infection rates. College leaders partly credit Black college culture -- and student awareness of the toll of the pandemic on Black, Latinx and Indigenous communities.