Colby College

With $200 million in recent investments, Waterville, Maine’s downtown is experiencing what its city manager dubs “a renaissance.” On Tuesday, dozens of people got to see the transformation up close during a “topping out” of Colby College’s new Paul J. Schupf Art Center, itself a multi-million dollar project to bring film screening rooms, art studios and an art gallery...

Downtown Waterville, Maine is underdoing a facelift thanks to major renovations at Colby College.

Colby College is banning discrimination based on caste, a system of inherited social class, becoming one of the nation’s earliest colleges to do so. The private liberal arts college revised its nondiscrimination policy to add caste to its list of protections for the campus community. The efforts were led by a professor who took an interest in caste discrimination...