NCAA President Mark Emmert spoke on a panel at Harvard this week about the role of sports in college academics. Among other topics, Emmert spoke about the recent men's basketball scandals, the role of amateurism in college sports and how race plays into athletics.

Pulitzer Prize-winner Dan Golden's new book, Spy Schools, examines the links between domestic and foreign intelligence agencies and American universities. On Campus Radio talked to Golden about these connections and what they mean for the future of higher education.

UMass Boston has been under scrutiny the past year for financial woes that have some students, faculty and staff blasting the administration for a lack of resources, classes and professors. University administrators say they are taking actions to make sure budget deficits do not impact students negatively.

UMass Boston has been under scrutiny the past year for its financial woes that have some students, faculty and staff blasting the administration for a lack of resources, classes and professors. We talked to one professor about the situation she's seeing on the ground and a member of the administration who talked us through what actions the university is taking.

Two years ago, schools started giving scholarship athletes modest stipends to meet the rest of their expenses. These stipends are not paychecks, but some schools don't offer them for philosophical reasons.

Two years ago, the NCAA started allowing colleges and universities to give stipends to scholarship athletes to cover the full cost of attendance. We talked to Victor Matheson, a sports economist at the College of the Holy Cross, and Peter Roby, the athletic director at Northeastern University, to find out what's worked with the stipends, what hasn't and why there's still debate over if athletes get any form of compensation at all.

An education non-profit believes it has a way to break the cycle of gang-related violence in Boston that spiked over the summer. College Bound Dorchester has been helping former gang members and convicted felons from some of the most troubled neighborhoods in the city get to college and is giving some of them a paycheck to do it.

An extended cut of our interview with Eric Rosenbach from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government on the program he's helping to lead to protect campaigns from cyber attacks.

In our second episode, WGBH’s On Campus Radio takes a look at diversity on college campuses.

Colleges and universities find themselves under increasing pressure to increase the racial and socioeconomic diversity of their student bodies.The Supreme Court ruled last summer that colleges can consider race as one factor in admissions.

Now, the Trump administration is reopening an investigation into a complaint that accuses Harvard of discriminating against Asian-American applicants.

Facebook has teamed up with Harvard University to spearhead a bipartisan effort to protect campaigns from digital attacks.