By Scott Jaschik. Since Florida took away the ability of community colleges to require remedial education, enrollment in entry college-level courses has gone up and the enrollment in remedial courses has dropped, according to a new report from Florida State University researchers. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, which promotes gun use and lobbies against gun restrictions, has given more than $1 million to campus groups at about 100 colleges to start or run shooting clubs, The Boston Globe reported. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. New Jersey's state student loan program lacks protections that federal and many state programs have, according to an investigation by ProPublica, co-published with The New York Times. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Survey of counseling center directors finds continued high demand from students for various conditions. Data show centers are diversifying clinical staffs, a demand of many minority student protests. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Thirty-one scientific societies last week wrote to members of Congress, urging them to accept that climate change is real. The letter comes at a time when many Republicans in Congress, including members of committees with responsibility for science spending and science policy, dispute the scientific consensus that climate change is happening. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine urges the creation of an independent commission to examine federal regulations on research involving human subjects, and the rejection of proposed changes in those rules. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Some SAT tutors who took the exam in May are raising questions about whether two items promoted stereotypes about women that may have hurt female students taking the test, The New York Times reported. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. A new paper (abstract available here) from the National Bureau of Economic Research asks what factors lead a larger share of undergraduates at some research universities than others to seek Ph.D.s in humanities fields. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Only a small minority of private colleges -- generally among the most elite and most wealthy -- pledge to admit students without regard to financial need and to meet the full financial need of accepted applicants. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Colleges adopted policies to stop the tenure clock to help professors who are new parents, especially mothers. Study suggests fathers may be the real beneficiaries. Read more...