Higher education

What happens to a student loan deferred?

Does it dry up
like Donald Trump’s skin?
Or draw interest—
Do payments ever end?

I’m an Atlanta-area resident who remembers how huge and devastating the 2002 demise of Morris Brown College’s…

With things happening so fast in the world around us, the news cycle feels like a whirlwind moving from story to…

Danielle Fuentes Morgan had been looking forward to the reunion with her brother for months.

Princeton announced Saturday that it was striking the name of former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson from its public…

Donald Trump, addressing leaders of the nation’s HBCUs on Tuesday, pledged to be a force for “strengthening”…

When I was in high school, I was an idealist—especially when it came to my education.

Harvard announced Saturday that law professor Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., who represented embattled film producer Harvey…

I didn’t come here to praise Betsy DeVos.

The white kid spotted extolling the virtues of whiteness to fellow students in a recent viral video wants you to…

Robert Palmer knows how uncomfortable it can feel to be a black professor at a predominantly white college.

If you want to see how systemic—and endemic—racism in the U.S., follow the money.

Years ago, The Root Editor-in-Chief Danielle Belton and I were having a conversation about America’s jacked-up…

Whenever I see Ku Klux Klan rallies or skinheads marching, instead of hate, I am always filled with a sense of…

While we were all distracted by other things Tuesday, Betsy DeVos used her powers as education secretary to roll…

Editor’s note: Once a month, this column will tackle broader questions about what the country should do to increase…