Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant on Tuesday signed what is being widely called one of the most antigay laws on the books in an American state. The law allows public employees (specifically defined by the statute as including those who work at public colleges) to deny services if they feel that providing the services would violate the employees' belief that same-sex marriage is wrong and that sex outside of heterosexual marriage is wrong. Read more...

Federal agents set up a fake university as part of a sting operation that on Tuesday resulted in the arrests of 21 individuals on visa fraud-related charges, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced. Read more...

A U.S. district court judge has once again taken a look at three publishers' case against Georgia State University's e-reserve and ruled that, in 41 of 48 cases, no copyright infringement took place. The ruling, a 220-page walk-through that applies the four-part fair-use test to each of the 48 cases, is seen by copyright experts as a complicated decision that won't be of much help to universities in determining fair use, as it relies on revenue data not normally available. Read more...

Columbia students are signing a petition and speaking out against plans to install a Henry Moore sculpture, "Reclining Figure" (at right in another installation of the sculpture), in a prominent place on campus. Read more...

A new Gallup survey for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation finds students supportive of free expression on campus, but with limits. Read more...

A memo from Yale Law School's Veterans Legal Services Clinic finds that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs had the authority to protect veterans from institutions that use deceptive recruiting practices by denying GI Bill funds to those colleges. But the VA and other state approving agencies have failed to do so. Read more...

Harvard and Princeton Universities have released their responses to questions from members of Congress about the way they use their endowments. The questions come amid heightened scrutiny of the wealthiest universities. Read more...

Seven public urban universities have banded together to form a new collaboration aimed at helping more low-income, underrepresented students earn degrees. The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities are leading the creation of the new group, which is dubbed Collaborating for Change. Read more...

Students on college campuses where there is "wide support for mental health issues" are more than 20 percent more likely to receive mental health services and 60 percent more likely to receive that help on campus, according to a new study from the RAND Corporation. Read more...

The Association of American Medical Colleges, the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities have deep concerns about a congressional panel’s plan to subpoena universities for the names of faculty members, graduate students and other personnel involved in fetal tissue research. Read more...