By Doug Lederman. As charitable donations to higher education soar to a new record high, the richest institutions continue to distance themselves from the rest. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. After two years of healthy growth, colleges' endowment investment return rates fell in 2015. While they didn't come close to the declines of some years in the past decade, the average rate is the lowest reported since 2012. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Federal Trade Commission alleges the for-profit university misled students about their employment and income prospects, and Education Department seeks to stop DeVry from making deceptive advertisements. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The pendulum swings quite a bit on the issue of asking applicants to colleges about their disciplinary records and criminal backgrounds. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The National Science Foundation this week issued a statement calling on the colleges and universities that receive its grants to do a better job of preventing and dealing with harassment in science -- and the agency has warned that it would terminate funding to institutions that do not take required steps to prevent and deal with harassment. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Eight tenure letters went out last week at Lake Superior State University, a small public university in Michigan. Three were denials, and of those three, at least two cited declining enrollment as the sole reason the recipient would not be recommended for tenure. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Editor discusses new book about the history of and outlook for African-American engineers. Read more...

By Jake New. State of Virginia has proposed a pilot program that would create a regional center for investigating cases of campus sexual violence. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. A professor of indigenous ancestry who lost a tenure bid due to a lack of peer-reviewed publications is claiming the university was biased in discounting her "nontraditional" scholarship. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. The demand for nurses isn't going away and it seems interest from potential nursing students remains strong. But colleges continue to find it difficult to admit all of the qualified candidates into their nursing programs, especially some of California's community colleges. Read more...