Susan Svrluga

Georgetown University students are pushing the school to help descendants of enslaved people sold to pay off debts at the school. University officials say they have set aside money to help and are planning a spring launch of those efforts.

Colleges are grappling with the fear of worsening pandemic conditions as they prepare to send students home for the holidays. They’re also pledging to be agile as data emerges about the omicron variant.

Major universities including Columbia, Duke, Yale and the University of California at Los Angeles are among a growing number of colleges choosing a temporary pivot online as coronavirus cases rise.

Separating infected and potentially exposed people from others is challenging for college officials — and for those who are confined.

Hundreds of students have asked Georgetown Law to confront “deeply embedded” problems at the school after a professor used an anti-Asian slur in class earlier this month.

Medical schools at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia and Stanford universities joined Harvard in declaring they would no longer provide U.S. News with data it uses to rank them.

Georgetown University and Jesuits have given $27 million to a foundation benefiting descendants of enslaved people who were sold to pay off a debt at the school in the nineteenth century.

At a contentious meeting, a few faculty positions were spared, but most of the cuts went through.

In preliminary findings, the Education Department says the Christian school underreported crimes and destroyed evidence. Administrators can appeal.

A widespread water outage Monday prompted the University of Maryland to shut down dorms, classroom buildings, libraries and the health center.