Institutions

President Trump, in forum on issues facing young people, extols vocational training and repeats comments that many educators said reflected ignorance of the two-year sector. He also says he is more popular on college campuses than most realize.

Vast majority of law school grads who sit for the bar pass within two years, but at least a quarter fail at more than 10 percent of schools.

Most colleges and universities rarely kill academic programs for underperforming. They (and their students) would be better off if they regularly culled programs that aren’t giving graduates the skills they need, Ryan Craig writes.

Sewanee, which at first stood by an honorary degree for the disgraced journalist, revokes it after much discussion of the theology of forgiveness and the movement against sexual harassment.

Eloy Ortiz Oakley says California’s online community college will be a better public alternative to for-profit colleges for the “stranded workers” traditional college systems struggle to serve.

An Arizona community college wants to tackle poverty by helping its students and faculty members celebrate being the first in their families to attend college.

New data suggest one-year programs in finance and related fields may be poised for gains.

In a new book, Cheryl Hyman discusses her controversial seven-year stint as chancellor of City Colleges of Chicago, including her attempt to improve its low graduation rates.