Specialized Colleges

The first Latina crowned Miss Coppin State University is facing backlash on social media for taking on the role at a historically Black university. The incident raises larger questions about who belongs at and can represent HBCUs as their student populations diversify.

Plus the law school rankings gain a new critic: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

University of Kentucky embarks on an initiative to train K-12 teachers to teach about the Holocaust. Rising antisemitism nationwide, as well as some recent incidents in the state and on the campus, have made the work feel especially pressing to its supporters.

The universities followed Harvard in criticizing the way the magazine ranks medical colleges.

Will other medical schools follow?

Admissions leaders have mixed feelings about U.S. News.

Reactions were muted or critical to a series of ways the magazine said it would improve its rankings.

The announcement that NYU would pause admissions to its music education program came as a shock to the whole department. Many questions remain unanswered.