Specialized Colleges

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.

Hampton University alumni object to honor for the late president, noting his link to Reagan administration and the Willie Horton ad.

Political environment and improved job market are discouraging potential applicants, survey finds.

Opposition came from those who said rules would be unfair to institutions in California and those that serve minority students.

Federal judge allows to proceed a suit in which white student says an admissions officer told her she might improve her odds of getting into medical school by discovering Native American or African American lineage.

Federal judge's ruling in medical school case outlines when antitrust could apply to admissions, and opinion could help with scrutiny some are facing over early decision.