By Doug Lederman. When a federal panel weighs whether to keep recognizing an overseer of for-profit colleges this month, the feds and the accreditor alike will be judged on the outcome. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Increased federal funding for agricultural research will bolster the economy, improve nutrition and food safety, protect public health, and strengthen the environment, officials of 13 universities argue in a new report. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The service the U.S. Education Department provides to student loan borrowers is "poor" in several areas and needs significant improvement, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Wednesday. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The U.S. Education Department is releasing this week data that it wants to use to help judge the work of accreditors, based on a set of outcomes of the institutions the agencies accredit. Some highlights of the data are in the table below. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce passed five pieces of legislation Wednesday -- a set of minor measures that may be the closest thing to a higher education legislative initiative in Congress this year. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the University of Texas at Austin's consideration of race and ethnicity in college admissions. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Another Supreme Court ruling Thursday had much more direct relevance to higher education, but the justices also let stand a federal appeals court decision that blocked President Obama's 2014 executive actions protecting some adults who reside in the United States illegally. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. More community colleges are moving away from relying on placement exams alone to figure out whether incoming students need remediation, but establishing a substitute system can be tricky. Read more...