The Federal Trade Commission announced Thursday that the operators of Gigats.com agreed to settle deception charges. Read more...

The U.S. Department of Education will offer researchers new access to federal data for studies that "can inform and advance policies and practices that support students’ postsecondary success and strengthen repayment outcomes for borrowers," the White House announced last week. Read more...

The Education Department is now making public a list of all the colleges and universities that have received religious exemptions to parts of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. The department is also making public a list of those currently requesting the exemptions. Read more...

Middle Tennessee State University has announced plans to change the name of Forrest Hall, which honors Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate military leader who went on, for a time, to be a leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Read more...

The Obama administration announced Wednesday that it wants to enroll an additional two million federal student loan borrowers in income-based repayment programs in the next year. Read more...

The University of Washington has pulled an infographic that offered advice to potential cheerleaders, amid widespread criticism that it was sexist, The Seattle Times reported. Read more...

A Chinese company has offered $12.6 million to purchase a University of Connecticut satellite campus with the aim of converting it into a private high school for international students, but the university “is hardly a disinterested seller,” The Boston Globe reported. Read more...

Rutgers University at New Brunswick has removed from its art library a piece of art (at right) that depicts Jesus on a dartboard, with darts that have been thrown on to him. It remains unclear how the art was selected for the library. Students took to social media to ask why it was there, to demand its removal and to defend it. Read more...

After ten months without a budget, Illinois lawmakers approved $600 million to keep state colleges and universities open through the summer. Read more...

A federal appeals court on Monday issued a straightforward ruling rejecting a former student's lawsuit accusing Southern Methodist University of breaching its obligation to treat him fairly. Read more...