TheDream.US, a scholarship program for undocumented students who came to the country as children, will fund students from states that would require them to pay out-of-state tuition -- or bar them from enrolling in college at all. Read more...

Female Ph.D.s in science and engineering earn 31 percent less than their male cohorts one year after graduation, according to a new study in American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.When controlling for the fact that women tend to earn degrees in fields that pay less than those in which more men earn degrees, the observed gap dropped to 11 percent. Read more...

An Obama administration proposal to rewrite federal regulations governing the use of human subjects (and human genetic material) in research would hamper academic studies by overly restricting the use of biospecimens, a higher education association asserts in a new analysis. Read more...

The U.S. Justice Department sued North Carolina Monday, and the state in return sued the Justice Department in a growing dispute over a law that bars state agencies, including public colleges and universities, from allowing transgender people to use bathrooms or locker rooms that do not correspond with their legal gender at birth. Read more...

James H. Shelton, former U.S. deputy secretary of education, will join the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to lead the philanthropic limited liability company's ed-tech efforts. Read more...

While the overall number of crimes reported by colleges and universities fell between 2001 and 2013, the number of reported forcible sex crimes has increased by 126 percent, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics. Read more...

A new report from the Institute for Higher Education Policy identifies the key metrics that would help federal and state data systems provide information on colleges' performance, efficiency and equity. Read more...

The Education Writers Association on Sunday released "State of the Education Beat 2016," an examination of trends in journalistic coverage of all levels of education. Read more...

Black students -- backed by many others -- are protesting Yale University's announcement last week that it is retaining the name of Calhoun College, a residential college named for John C. Calhoun, who was among the most notable political defenders of slavery in the United States. Read more...

The University of Louisville and the city of Louisville announced Friday that a monument (at right) that salutes Confederate soldiers from Kentucky who died in the Civil War will be removed from the university campus and eventually placed elsewhere. Read more...