By Ashley A. Smith. Community colleges across Tennessee are starting their academic year with many students who may have never thought they would attend an institution of higher learning, but who are taking advantage of the Tennessee Promise program, which offers them a free two-year college education. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. After three months of studying at Damascus University in Syria, Omar Alhalabi's life was uprooted.
It was 2012 and the university had become a stronghold for the military. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. A bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved Corinthian’s plan to liquidate its assets, earmarking about $4.3 million for a special fund for former students. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Following a monthslong effort by liberal groups to push “debt-free college” -- and after President Obama’s call for free community college earlier this year -- leading Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both now have proposals that would expand the role of the federal government in higher education. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. Four-year public colleges and universities have increased their education-related spending even as overall funding has declined. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. Imagine this scenario: a presidential search is underway at a college. A candidate visits campus and is perceived by a board member as being overly ambitious and narcissistic. The trustee is ready to cut the candidate from the short list, but a subsequent test reveals that while the candidate is ambitious, that ambition is reserved not necessarily for self but channeled into whatever organization he or she is affiliated with. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. A report from the National Association of College and University Business Officers released today reveals that tuition discount rates are at an all-time high and many institutions are using the strategy to a point that, according a top analyst at NACUBO, is "not sustainable." Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. According to a working paper released Monday, learners have found a fittingly massive way of cheating their way to a good grade in a MOOC. A single MOOC can enroll tens if not hundreds of thousands of learners at once, and by creating multiple accounts, a single learner can “harvest” correct answers that they can use to earn a perfect score and a certificate showing their mastery of the topic. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Middlebury College is ending its at times controversial online education partnership with K12, with administrators at the college citing the experience gained but also the “tensions” of working with a for-profit company. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Science is a process, not a product -- often a long one. And key to the process of organizing and creating knowledge is replication, or reproducing even the most credible-seeming results to help confirm their validity or to expose flaws in the work. Read more...