Specialized Colleges

A faculty review board said it began investigating a now-former Harvard professor for, among other things, his publicly condemned reaction to being overcharged for Chinese food. That’s per his new lawsuit—over not earning tenure.

Some students at historically Black colleges in Atlanta are protesting a police training center scheduled for construction. They and some of their professors want campus leaders to denounce the project.

The association rejected the idea of allowing law schools to be test optional.

The first Latina crowned Miss Coppin State University is facing backlash on social media for taking on the role at a historically Black university. The incident raises larger questions about who belongs at and can represent HBCUs as their student populations diversify.

Plus the law school rankings gain a new critic: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

University of Kentucky embarks on an initiative to train K-12 teachers to teach about the Holocaust. Rising antisemitism nationwide, as well as some recent incidents in the state and on the campus, have made the work feel especially pressing to its supporters.

The universities followed Harvard in criticizing the way the magazine ranks medical colleges.

Will other medical schools follow?