Black Tulane med students take powerful photo at former slave quarters: ‘Resilience is in our DNA’

Black medical students at Tulane University shared a powerful message about resilience and a better future when they posed for a photo in front of former slave quarters at a Louisiana plantation.

FTC: University of Phoenix to cancel $141m in student debts as part of settlement over deceptive advertising

Officials with the Federal Trade Commission announced that University of Phoenix will cancel $141 million in debts owed to the school by students who were harmed by ads that were allegedly deceptive.

Texas A&M campuses to become smoke, tobacco-free in 2020

Texas A&M will join more than 2,000 universities in the US that have already become smoke and tobacco-free, according to Texas A&M President Michael K. Young.

Around half of 2020 class of Rhodes Scholars from US are first-generation Americans

Around half of the class of Rhodes Scholars from the U.S. who will study at Oxford University in England next year are first-generation Americans and a majority are minority candidates. 

11-year-old invents backpack to stop bullying in schools

An Atlanta sixth grader turned his struggle with bullies into a patented invention to help other students.

USC sorority president wants opioid overdose antidote Narcan available for members

Taking what she sees as a potentially life-saving step in the aftermath of nine recent USC student deaths -- some of which are suspected of being drug overdoses -- the president of a university sorority said she hopes to make the overdose-reversal drug Narcan available to her members.

College students turn to ‘adulting’ classes for life skills

Many students entering college haven’t mastered basic life skills such as changing a tire or balancing a checkbook, so some universities are responding with noncredit workshops sometimes called “Adulting 101.”