By Peter Schmidt. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has spent about $78,000 on outside advisers to deal with accusations of bullying in its chemical-engineering department, yet some faculty members there see the conflict as far from resolved, according to The Boston Globe. More...

By Andrew Mytelka. Courts have dismissed more than a dozen lawsuits filed in recent years by law-school alumni who said their alma maters had lied to them about their job prospects, reports The Wall Street Journal. Most of the suits were filed in the aftermath of the Great Recession, which amplified the plunging demand for new lawyers over the last decade. More...

By Katherine Mangan. The nation’s medical schools chalked up another record-setting year of applications and enrollment, while making strides to attract a more-diverse applicant pool, according to figures released on Thursday by the Association of American Medical Colleges. More...

By Andy Thomason. Mitch Daniels, the former Republican governor of Indiana and current president of Purdue University, visited The Chronicle’s offices on Friday, and sat down with reporters for a free-ranging discussion about higher ed. More...

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed Google another victory on Friday in a high-profile case about copyright infringement, declaring that its scanning of books as part of the Google Books project constitutes fair use. In its ruling, a unanimous three-judge panel of the court upheld a federal judge’s 2013 ruling against the Authors Guild, which sued the tech giant in 2005. More...

By Andy Thomason. One person was killed and three were wounded after a shooting early Friday morning at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, according to a series of updates from the university. The Associated Press reported that the police said the shooting had begun as a fight between two groups of students. More...

By Don Troop. A division of California’s Second District Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that a woman who was attacked six years ago by a classmate wielding a kitchen knife in a UCLA chemistry lab cannot hold the university responsible, the Associated Press reports. Public colleges have no obligation to protect students from crimes committed by other students, the court ruled. More...

By Andy Thomason. The number of complaints from private student-loan borrowers to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau increased by roughly 20 percent in the past year, from 5,300 last year to 6,400 in the past year, according to the annual report of the bureau’s ombudsman. More...

By Andy Thomason. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will begin allowing students to earn half of a master’s degree through online courses, then cap it off with a single semester on the campus. More...

By Andy Thomason. Organizers of the much-talked-about effort to “recast” the college-admissions process are pushing back its start date, from January to April, according to an email on Wednesday from the Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success to college counselors. More...