Harvard University's new President Larry Bacow visited his hometown of Pontiac, Mich., to visit a local high school and make the case for college. WGBH News was there.

Nearly three in four Americans disagree with using race in college admissions, although even more value racial diversity on campuses, according to a new WGBH News poll.

Some college applicants are admitted to schools on the condition they spend their first year at a different institution. It's a little known-policy universities appear to be increasingly using to balance their own enrollments and take students who might otherwise not make the cut on the first try.

For the past 40 years, Tufts has been the only fully-accredited graduate veterinary program in New England. In 1978, the Commonwealth gave Tufts nearly 600 acres of land for $1. Now there's questions of whether the state should focus that money on a private university when it can be used elsewhere.

An Asian-American group is backing a lawsuit against Harvard that claims the university discirminated against Asian-American applicants.

A Syrian student at Northeastern is worried about her future after the Supreme Court has upheld President Trump's travel ban against several Muslim-majority countries, including Syria.

Columbia University in New York is offering rising high school seniors the opportunity to take an intensive classics course and get a feel for campus life.

A new lawsuit challenges Harvard's model of admissions, which accounts for students' background and not just test scores and grades. The outcome could have a direct outcome on the furture of affirmative action.

Many students that attended for-profit colleges and failed to receive the education they were promised are still waiting for relief from debt they incurred during their time there.

School are doing more than ever to help prevent suicide on campus and to improve access to mental health resources for students.