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Ohio State isn’t the only university in turmoil, but few others have faced so many issues lately. One lawmaker called the school “a national embarrassment.”

Other small private colleges like Hampshire have closed in recent years as financial pressures and competition for students increase.

An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.

A Yale report offers some honest self-reflection on where the university went wrong.

The university released a report that said the president, Walter Carter Jr., took trips with a podcaster and suggested that the university hire her.

At the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, scholars wrestled with what people want from national anniversaries — and whether historians can give it to them.

“CoachGPT.” A college “cookie house.” And the latest from Iran.

Readers respond to an Opinion essay by Frank Bruni. Also: An arch near Arlington; cuts in mental health care; transformation in prison.

The $7 million KidSTREAM museum was the brainchild of a former teacher looking for a place to entertain her young daughters.