Lilah Burke

Administrations are considering the upcoming fall. What sorts of equity issues are at play with a return to “normal”?

Governors have proposed a patchwork of higher education funding increases and cuts in their budgets.

Congress recently lifted the ban on Pell Grant eligibility for people in prison. Advocates say their work isn’t over.

Isolated from peers and forced into remote learning, students experience loss, educational setbacks – and some unexpected academic progress.

Institutions planning to offer more in-person opportunities in spring  Inside Higher Ed

Georgetown’s relationship with activism has never simple. Never has it been more complicated than on May 6, 1970, when students went on strike.

Colleges and universities are making progress on efforts to serve disabled students, but some advocates and scholars say higher ed has been slow to recognize disability as an identity group or include it in programming around diversity and inclusion.

With some colleges and universities planning to continue online learning into the spring, students are now looking at over a year of learning from home. How will their well-being and academics be affected?

Black workers at universities are among the most vulnerable people on campuses. But they often are left out of conversations about racial justice.

This article is part of our 2020 contribution to the DC Homeless Crisis Reporting Project in collaboration with other local newsrooms. The collective works will be published throughout the day a

Some colleges are reviewing their law enforcement and criminal justice curricula following national unrest around police brutality and racism.

Over 1,500 mathematicians have signed a letter urging the community to stop working with police.

New research suggests that for a large campus dealing with COVID-19, accurate testing and limits on class size and social contact may be of critical importance.

With limited technology in their facilities, most college-in-prison programs moved to paper correspondence amid the pandemic. Others were suspended altogether.

The Georgetown Alliance of Graduate Employees (GAGE) reached a tentative labor deal with the university on May 1, securing increased pay and health benefits.

As classes move online, some colleges are choosing to go pass/fail to relieve student stress. Is that the right move?

The Education Department for the first time has released earnings data for thousands of college programs at all degree levels. What do they show?

With all the controversy around WSSC’s rebranding, here’s how its new logo stacks up.

Since 2015, the number of families experiencing homelessness in the care of the DC Department of Human Services has dropped by 40%. Behind the change is a program that attempts to match families at risk of entering homeless shelters with relatives or friends who may be able to take them in, even if …

The sideburns are half the battle.