Rep. John Conyers’s son is found safe, three days after disappearance; The manufacturing jobs Trump promises now require education after high school. Are apprenticeships the answer?; ‘It’s a lonely place': A conservative Ivy League professor counters faculty anger; Dear president-elect: Faculty at UPenn ask Trump to condemn racist attack at his alma mater; Police searching for congressman John Conyers’s son; When it comes to career-training programs, for-profit schools don’t measure up, feds say; Student protesters demand that universities become sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants; Is the future of for-profit colleges bright under Trump? Maybe not.; Man investigated for racist messages had been accepted to University of Pennsylania; ‘Why white women shouldn’t date black men’ fliers discovered at Southern Methodist University; University of Oklahoma student implicated in racist group texts to Penn freshmen is no longer a student; Why aren’t conservatives included in university’s ‘inclusiveness,’ Michigan students ask; Ivy League students, professors, alumni ask schools to be sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants;   A higher education news blog   Rep. John Conyers’s son is found safe, three days after disappearance Carl Conyers was found in his Houston apartment complex by police early Friday morning. The circumstances of his disappearance remain under investigation. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more » The manufacturing jobs Trump promises now require education after high school. Are apprenticeships the answer? We need an education system that promises more than one pathway out of high school to a good job. By Jeffrey J. Selingo  •  Read more »   ‘It’s a lonely place': A conservative Ivy League professor counters faculty anger When a professor at the University of Pennsylvania was asked to sign on to a joint letter to President-elect Donald Trump asking him to condemn a racist incident on campus, she felt her opinion was unwelcome. By Carrie Kovarik  •  Read more »   Dear president-elect: Faculty at UPenn ask Trump to condemn racist attack at his alma mater Professors at the University of Pennsylvania wrote a letter to president-elect Donald Trump in the wake of a racist incident on campus By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Police searching for congressman John Conyers’s son Carl Conyers, a 21-year-old student at the University of Houston, was last seen on Tuesday. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   When it comes to career-training programs, for-profit schools don’t measure up, feds say Vocational graduates of public colleges earn nearly $9,000 more than those who attended comparable programs at for-profit institutions, the Education Department said in a report. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel  •  Read more »   Student protesters demand that universities become sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants Students are pressuring universities to protect undocumented students when Donald Trump becomes president. While some students celebrated Trump's win, others were in tears, worried about the threat of deportation for themselves or their families. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   Is the future of for-profit colleges bright under Trump? Maybe not. While investors might expect a wholesale roll back of regulations aimed at for-profit educators, higher education experts suspect that will not be enough to save the industry. By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel  •  Read more »   Man investigated for racist messages had been accepted to University of Pennsylania University of Pennsylvania officials said that a man was able to get access to students' contact information because he had accepted an offer of admission and joined a private group Facebook page for members of the class of 2020. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   ‘Why white women shouldn’t date black men’ fliers discovered at Southern Methodist University SMU officials are investigating the fliers, which were found Sunday in a residence hall. By Sarah Larimer  •  Read more »   A U.S. senator and a professor met in the woods. A profane argument about Donald Trump ensued. David Haskell, a Sewanee University professor who has written about meditating in the forest, says Sen. Bob Corker told him to leave Tennessee. By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.  •  Read more »   University of Oklahoma student implicated in racist group texts to Penn freshmen is no longer a student Thousands of alumni and professors have called on Donald Trump to condemn the racist incident. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   Why aren’t conservatives included in university’s ‘inclusiveness,’ Michigan students ask As anti-Trump protests continue at colleges nationally, a petition at the University of Michigan asks that "diversity" include a diversity of political opinions. By Susan Svrluga  •  Read more »   Ivy League students, professors, alumni ask schools to be sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants In the wake of the election, petitions challenge university officials to provide a safe haven for students who aren't legally U.S. residents. By Susan Svrluga and Nick Anderson  •  Read more »   Recommended for you   Opinions Thought-provoking opinions and commentary, in your inbox daily. 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