After Charlottesville Violence, Colleges Brace for More Clashes
With their legal options limited by the First Amendment, colleges are expecting a rush of controversial speakers and are making plans to control violence.
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With their legal options limited by the First Amendment, colleges are expecting a rush of controversial speakers and are making plans to control violence.
By DANA GOLDSTEIN
Protests of a plan to remove a statue of a Confederate general led to clashes that left at least one person dead and 34 others injured, officials said.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and BRIAN M. ROSENTHAL
When far left meets far right, sparks fly. Students from both sides discuss their political journeys.
By ANDREW BEALE and SONNER KEHRT
University buildings still honor grand wizards and cyclops.
By KATE SINCLAIR
Death threats and protests as statements about race and politics go viral.
By LAURA PAPPANO
An American history curriculum lets young people write the narrative. Fill in the rap.
Nearly two in five high school students now take vocational classes, including simulated workplaces designed to prepare them for good-paying jobs.
By DANA GOLDSTEIN
At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities.
By STEPHANIE SAUL
The practice in college admissions has evolved from race-based quotas of decades ago into a range of approaches that only occasionally produce the desired results.
By VIVIAN YEE
We asked readers to send us pictures that represented their experiences with this time of transition. Here are some responses.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Work-readiness programs for the intellectually challenged aim to prepare students for a dream job. Less than half will find one.
By KYLE SPENCER
Some say English instruction must get back to basics, with a focus on grammar. But won’t that stifle a student’s personal voice?
By DANA GOLDSTEIN
Your goal: to make someone fall in love with you (or at least your writing). First, choose a topic you really want to write about.
By RACHEL TOOR
How an engineering professor who “flunked my way” through high school math and science went on to create the world’s most popular online course.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Heading to campus for the first time? Check out these results from the U.C.L.A. survey of 2016-17 first-year students.
Students are protesting for official recognition of their identities, whether racial, ethnic, sexual, religious, first-generation, low-income or immigrant.
By LAURA PAPPANO
Political organizing is tedious. Change comes with dogged, on-the-ground work, not a list of demands, according to Harvard Resistance School.
By LAURA PAPPANO
Students plan recruitment strategies for the new school year: Demand and disorient.
By LAURA PAPPANO
The hope is that students with intellectual disabilities can live quality, independent lives.