Residential Life

Under potential new policy, student groups at the University of Minnesota could be held responsible if their individual members break the rules. Critics see problems in the potential for collective punishment.

Though University of Texas at Austin called getting rid of fees for counseling "a new investment" in mental health, few institutions charge students for these visits.

Study counters widely held views about how students' political views change when they arrive in college.

At Colorado State, skirmishes follow a speech, and anger follows anti-immigrant posters. At Tennessee, concerns arise over a room booked under apparently false pretenses. Colorado State president issues statement saying, "A Nazi is a Nazi is a Nazi."

State legislatures are banning spaces colleges have carved out for free expression and protest that many consider restrictive.

Florida State has allowed fraternities and sororities to operate on campus again under strict new measures, but experts say many will be hard to enforce.

At least one college warns its students about the "Tide pod challenge," but so far there have been no publicized cases of college students getting sick after eating laundry detergent packets.

Students interact less with peers of different faiths and traditions once they enter college, a new study finds.