Describes how three prominent advocacy organizations are working to find and challenge any college program that serves only members of specific minority groups. (EV)

Describes how Washington & Jefferson College mended fences with its community while Northwestern University faces continued tensions. (EV)

Discusses Pick-A-Prof, an online service for evaluating college instructors. The firm says the practice is good for teaching, while critics say it tells students who gives out easy A's. (EV)

Discusses how experts on classroom design say that comfortable conditions--temperature, sight lines, acoustics, chairs--allow students to learn more; few colleges have taken the advice, however. (EV)

Discusses the final report of a federal commission studying Title IX, which focuses on protecting men's sports to the dismay of advocates for women. (EV)

Discusses labor relations at Yale University, explaining that for 35 years, they have been negative, with 4,000 workers recently walking off the job. (EV)

Describes how supporters for TRIO and Gear Up, the two main federal programs that encourage low-income students to prepare for college, are girding for a battle over a proposed budget merger. (EV)

Discusses how private-equity funds are pouring millions of dollars into higher-education companies, and that college endowments are among the investors. (EV)

Describes how colleges are taking advantage of bargains on fiber-optic lines to build regional computer networks; some envision a national network for academe. (EV)

Describes how college students are among the reservists whose lives have been put on hold by recent military activation. (EV)

Discusses how, despite potential health risks and occasional deaths, performance-enhancing drugs are seen by college athletes as a boost to the top of their game. (EV)

Discusses how, through several colleges in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, three powers--the United States, Turkey, and Russia--seek to influence the course of Central Asia. (EV)

Explores how even mundane conflicts on campuses can lead to ugly situations and costly lawsuits; but with conflict-resolution consultants and internal programs, colleges are trying to head off trouble before it does serious damage. (EV)

Discusses how, criticized from the left and the right, class-rank admissions programs in three states (California, Texas, and Florida) seem to be having less of an impact than advertised, with elite campuses much less diverse than they were with affirmative action. (EV)

Discusses findings from a survey on voluntary giving to higher education, which found that a sharp drop in alumni giving in 2002 spurred a dip in colleges' overall donations for the first time in 14 years. (EV)