Colleges & Universities

A tragedy is sending shockwaves through the DePaul University community. A 20-year-old student and member of the men’s soccer team has died suddenly, leaving teammates, classmates and friends heartbroken. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

A DePaul soccer player died unexpectedly after being found unresponsive in a school residence hall Monday.

A DePaul soccer player died unexpectedly after being found unresponsive in a school residence hall Monday.

At this graduation, you might have thought you were seeing double, because among the graduates were 10 sets of twins.

President Donald Trump slammed Harvard University’s international student policies during a press event on Wednesday, insinuating that foreign students are responsible for “shopping centers exploding” and the weakening of American higher education. “Harvard wants to fight. They want to show how smart they are, and they’re getting their ass kicked.”

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants. The photos of the subjects identified by Tamara Lanier as her great-great-great-grandfather Renty and his daughter...

Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement address Thursday at the University of Maryland.

La Salle University’s Alexis Sanchez was the commencement speaker at the school’s graduation ceremony over the weekend, but most students know her in a non-speaking role: the La Salle Explorer mascot.

Leo High School on Chicago’s South Side honors 2025 graduates with draft day

Illinois State University’s police department is seeking help in identifying a person of interest after shots were fired in the school’s Bone Student Center over the weekend.

As of early Monday morning, police were still searching for a suspect, and no shelter-in-place order for campus had been issued.

An investigation is underway after a person was shot Sunday night on Illinois State University’s campus in Normal, Illinois, according to school officials, with police still searching for a suspect as of Monday morning.

The frozen funds feud between Harvard University and the White House will go before a federal judge on Monday.

Another alert issued later said to “stay away from University and Locust St. and from Bone Student Center” while the area was being cleared

Thursday’s tent encampments would have been the first tent cities at the university since students took over a building last year.

After Harvard’s president announced it wouldn’t accept Trump administration demands, the Education Dept.’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism’s froze billions in funding.

After trailing for most of the game, the Houston Cougars clawed their way back in the final minutes to defeat Cooper Flagg and Duke. Houston will vie for a national title against Florida on Monday.

Harvard president Alan Garber said in response the school had “devoted considerable effort to addressing antisemitism” and would provide a full accounting to the government.

Instead of joining in Columbia University’s annual “Alumni Day” celebrations for the School of International and Public Affairs, several alumni gathered to denounce the school by ripping up their diplomas in protest.