Specialized Colleges

Cardiologist loses journal editorship over homophobic comments he made to a local ballet but hangs on to his faculty job. He's reportedly defended his words, saying that his personal views have no bearing on his professional capabilities.

Survey notes that those who enroll at elite colleges have very different priorities from those who enroll elsewhere.

Without accreditation, Bennett students could lose eligibility for federal aid. Court order restores recognition while legal process plays out.

The current political environment is motivating law school applicants, surveys find.

When numbers are misused in a way that reinforces an idea that such institutions are less than most of higher education, we should respond, argues Walter Kimbrough.

At University of Southern California, some donors and trustees join with students and professors to demand that dean be kept in his job. Rancor is so intense that trustees have gone public with anger over dismissal.

Some fear an emphasis on faculty publications is the last thing law schools and students need.

Nebraska-based Creighton to build a new, $99 million medical school in Phoenix, nearly 1,300 miles from home in Omaha, to supply doctors to underserved area.