School's back in session, and another class of college freshmen is embarking on the traditional years-long journey of learning, drinking, fucking, and non-dischargeable debt. It's too late to save them now, but Nick Offerman has one exquisite dram of wisdom that could make their time go more smoothly: Don't use your roommate's soap.

The University of California is the latest major university to find itself arguing over whether or not divestment from fossil fuels is a worthwhile idea. Is it? Yes. But it is also a self-fulfilling prophecy, either way.

A new study out of Baylor University finds that college students spend an "astounding" amount of time on their cell phones and has researchers warning of cell phone "addiction" (not in a jokey way).

Nathan Deal, the conservative Georgia governor who's in a tight re-election race against a grandson of Jimmy Carter, suffered a misstep Tuesday when he mistakenly assumed a Hispanic student speaking to him at the University of Georgia was an undocumented immigrant.

If there's anything to be learned from last year's "most deranged sorority girl email ever," it's that the internal communications of sororities are endlessly charming, fascinating, and full of the word "cunt." The Louisiana State University chapter of Tri Delta has proven that once again this week with a leaked parody song trashing the "fucking lards" and "poser cunts" in every other sorority on campus

Although the college experience at large state universities is a nonstop sex party, the "elite" college experience is more... refined. Finding love can be difficult. Happily, our nation's future leaders now have a new crutch.

College these days is expensive as hell. ($57K for "Pitzer?" Is that even accredited?) Everyone is drowning in student debt. But! There is good news on the college cost front. Also, there is bad news.

A new study in the journal Frontiers in Psychology finds that adjunct professors in U.S. colleges are at unique risk of "depression, anxiety, and stress" due to their jobs. Why might that be?

Today, the American Cornhole Association will crown a new world cornholing champion in West Virginia. Do you love cornholing as much as Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.)? Because he really loves it. Like, a lot.

American colleges and universities face a climate of soaring costs, soaring student debt, and general wariness over the long term financial viability of our higher education model. The chief financial officers of colleges say, collectively: oh, shit.

A new study finds that nearly two-thirds of scholars (particularly women) doing field studies in disciplines like archaeology and anthropology say they have experienced sexual harassment, which makes field studies almost as perilous as working at a college.

Newnham College, one of the women-only colleges of Cambridge, has uncovered an exam-time chocolate-smuggling ring operating out of the college library. A mysterious book found during a stock check had been hollowed out and filled with two hidden candy bars.

A new Senate study estimates that 40 percent of four-year colleges in the U.S. have not investigated a single allegation of sexual assault in the past five years. So clearly there are no "sexual assaults," properly understood! What's the problem?

A college student named Nyjah, who goes by @dearfashionn on Twitter, became an overnight internet celebrity when she inadvertently texted a nude photo to her dad instead of her dude. Disclaimer: It's not that tough to stage iPhone screenshots, so this could be a hoax. But if it's not, poor Nyjah is living a 21st-century waking nightmare.

"[O]f course, most elites didn't go to state schools," writes Matt Phillips on Quartz. His subject is the debate over college debt and whether or not it's a big deal—in his estimation, the complaints about heavy individual educational debt demonstrate the narcissism of "a vocal, college-educated group" that "dominates the mediascape."

Yeshiva University poured more of its endowment into hedge funds than any other school of its size. Yeshiva University managed to lose more than a billion dollars. These two facts are related.

Coffee empire Starbucks plans to announce an unusual partnership with Arizona State University Monday to pay for the (online) college education of its 135,000-odd U.S. employees—even the ones who leave.

Ousted New York Times editor Jill Abramson is joining the faculty of Harvard University, her alma mater, as a visiting lecturer in non-fiction narrative journalism. Like every Harvard graduate, Abramson has the school’s crimson “H” logo tattooed on her back.

Consternation was the order of the day at New Jersey's Mercer Community College last month, when faculty and staff were confronted with something quite unexpected in an assembly: vagina.

Lake City, a small Tennessee burg "beset by unemployment and methamphetamine use," will change its name to "Rocky Top" in order to excite developers and Vols fans. No word yet on when Miami will change its name to "Blow Canes."