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While Mexican immigration to the U.S. has slowed in recent years, the number of Central Americans heading north has been on the rise. Last year, the number of illegal border-crossers caught from countries other than Mexico hit nearly 100,000 — more than double the year before.

Some of the factors keeping low-income students from getting into college aren't always obvious to the public, higher education insiders tell Morning Edition's David Greene.

A committee formed by Harvard President Lawrence Bacow found that Harvard faculty and staff enslaved 70 people from the school's founding in 1636 to the banning of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783.

Samson Occom was sent to Europe to raise funds for a school for Native American students, but the money was diverted to found Dartmouth College. Now a step toward reconciliation.

A community in eastern Oklahoma is grieving after seven people were found dead at the home of a registered sex offender. The county district attorney says they're still piecing together what happened.

In a case scheduled to go before the Supreme Court on Dec. 6, a group of elite universities, led by Yale Law School, will argue that they should not allow Defense Department recruiters on their campuses. The schools say this is because the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is discriminatory. Commentator Ken Harbaugh is a student at Yale Law School and a former Navy officer. He says that if the Defense Department and Yale do not change their attitudes toward each other, both institutions will lose.

So what if it's pure literary estrogen? Author David Sax says Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love the best comeback story he's ever read. Sure, Gilbert's memoir is often dismissed as a beach read for unhappy housewives, but Sax says the haters are missing the point.

America First Legal, an organization launched by former Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, is the group behind many of the political ads.

The White House nominated Abid Qureshi for a federal judgeship in Washington, D.C. If confirmed, advocates say he would be the first Muslim judge on the federal bench.

In Taiye Selasi's debut novel, members of the Sai family have trouble assimilating both in the United States and while in Ghana for the patriarch's funeral. Host Michel Martin speaks with Selasi about her novel and the immigrant experience.