Despite an industry-wide tuition contraction, colleges had a great financial year last year. They took in more money from donors than ever before. And for the elite few, the boom years are booming big.

Even the most prestigious historically black colleges and universities are facing financial struggles these days. They would love to bolster their ranks by luring in more white students. But how?

The governor of Tennessee wants to make community college in his state free. Is there any possible downside to that?

A statue of a man in his underwear has created a scandal at an all-female college in Massachusetts. More than 300 students at Wellesley College have signed a petition to have the statue, appropriately titled "Sleepwalker," removed from the campus.

What's the best way to challenge campus patriarchy and critique male fantasies of sorority initiations? By getting nekkid with the sisters and making out in the stacks, baby.

University philosophy departments, like the rest of our society, have a reputation for sexism. One university with a bad reputation is turning a harsh eye on itself. The findings are not very encouraging.

Many elite colleges and universities make a real effort to recruit (some) students from low income backgrounds who went to relatively poor high schools. New data shows that's not enough to remedy the damage that bad high schools do.

People seem to be upset about the fact that this Giant Food Stores ad in DC targeting Howard University students features a white person, but hey, cut em some slack. DC is different now. [via Washington Biz Journal]

After a budget battle that raged throughout 2013, Cooper Union's board of trustees voted today to end the college's 155-year-old practice of allowing every student free tuition. "[T]uition remains the only realistic source of new revenue in the near future," wrote board chair Richard Lincer in a statement.

Gwendolyn Boyd was hired this week as the new president of Alabama State University, her alma mater. She'll get a $300,000 salary, free housing, and expenses. But getting ass is out of the question.

A male college student's request not to be forced to work with women is finally bringing the issue of cooties to the forefront of academia.

The Duke of Cambridge may be even more boring than we thought. To his credit, he has enrolled at Cambridge University, one of the top schools on the planet. But it's just a ten-week program. In agricultural management.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon is a fraternity with deep links to Wall Street. It's also notable for killing more of its pledges through hazing than any other frat. Fortunately, you can learn SAE's secret motto here without placing your own life at risk.

An Iowa State University professor was forced to resign from his post this week after he fudged a clinical trial to make rabbit blood appear to neutralize HIV, with millions in federal research dollars at stake.

An Occidental College spokesman confirmed to Gawker what was suspected earlier today: Online trolls from Reddit and elsewhere disrupted their online anonymous sexual assault reporting system with hundreds of sarcastic, caustic false rape reports.

Self-styled "men's rights advocates" used their Reddit forum yesterday to organize a spam campaign against Occidental College's online sexual assault reporting system, possibly complicating the already-fraught reporting process for actual victims at the university.

College is about education. Wrong! College is a busine$$. And for some college presidents, business is very, very good.

On Xtube and Pornhub, where he shared his voyeuristic clips, he called himself "JERKING_BUD." In real life, Seth Thompson was a collection specialist at one of Florida Atlantic University's libraries. And oh, what a collection he had on his university laptop.

Women are paid less than men. Besides spontaneous castrations, one way to engage this problem is through higher education. And now, a study which shows ladies exactly what to do in college in order to smash the patriarchy.

Julie Bryan's Spanish professor told the class they had to prove they could speak the language by filming themselves either being interviewed or singing a song, so she decided to produce a telenovela instead.