Universities

If Astra Armstrong’s life were a play, the opening scene would show an elementary school playground in Southeast Washington in the middle of the night. There, a basketball hoop without a net would sit near a slide and a set of monkey bars.…

“I want people to look at me and say, ‘She did it, I can do it.’

Each year, hundreds of people graduate from the University of the District of Columbia and go out to make a mark in the world. Many UDC graduates are under 25 years old and haven’t yet hit the workforce. And then there are graduates like…

D.C. regulators signal their concerns about effects on student athletes

As she sat in the well-appointed "commuter lounge" of Georgetown University, Rashema Melson drank in her surroundings as she drank an ice cold bottle of mineralized, specialty water.

Georgetown University has struck a development deal with Gonzaga College High School, with plans to build new student housing on a site near Union Station.

Howard University students and community residents turned out in droves for an Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 1B meeting in Shaw last week. First on the agenda was a discussion about how the historic campus can curb neighbors who…

When it comes to Howard University and the subject of gentrification, we tend to hear more about the student protests than their academic pursuits.

Some D.C. residents may still think it’s okay to walk a dog across Howard University’s central yard.

While many are confounded by the subject of reparations for slavery, students at Georgetown University have acted on the courage of their convictions.

Georgetown University students voted overwhelmingly on Thursday in favor of creating a new student fee to benefit descendants of slaves sold nearly 200 years ago to benefit the school.

Georgetown students voted Thursday to create a fund to help descendants of slaves who were sold in the 19th century to pay off the university’s debts.

Students at Georgetown University voted on Thursday to increase their tuition to benefit descendants of the 272 enslaved Africans that the Jesuits who ran the school sold nearly two centuries ago to secure its financial future.

Georgetown University student activists are pushing to create a reparations fund for the descendants of slaves, one that would use a student fee to send a message that historical wrongs will not be forgotten — and to prod administrators to…

The day it all began, in late March of last year, Kenneth Holmes had been at Howard University for about two years. During that time, Holmes, Howard’s vice president of student affairs, had spoken with students about their needs and…

“I’m not shocked.” The room quieted as Drey Awosika, a 21-year-old senior at George Washington University, spoke. “Racism exists,” she said. “It’s always been there.”

Georgetown University is moving 85 students out of the top floor of an apartment complex this week after structural engineers found roof damage that required swift repairs and reinforcement.