By Colleen Flaherty. Professors and staff at the University of Texas at Austin may ban guns from their private offices if they choose to do so when the state’s campus carry law takes effect next month, the Board of Regents for the university system voted Wednesday. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. New study suggests that science dissertations increasingly are research article based, not book-length studies, reflecting the professionalization of the Ph.D. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Economics professor loses department chairmanship after his comments at a free enterprise conference are leaked. Read more...

By Rick Seltzer. Almost 44 percent of chief business officers expect their next career move to be retirement, according to the NACUBO National Profile of Higher Education Chief Business Officers, a report issued every three years that was released Thursday. Read more...

By Rick Seltzer. Colleges expand efforts to raise money from recent graduates. But Northeastern campaign that was widely mocked online shows that raising money from those repaying student loans isn't easy. Read more...

By Rick Seltzer. Critics say the Higher Education Cost Adjustment index leads to the wrong conclusions on state funding and policy. Read more...

By Rick Seltzer. College and university chief business officers increasingly agree higher education is in a financial crisis, yet many are divided over the role a key constituency on campus should play as institutions grapple with budget issues: their faculty members. Read more...

By Jake New. The National Women’s Law Center and more than 80 other groups released a statement on Wednesday defending the U.S. Department of Education’s recent efforts to enforce how colleges should respond to complaints of sexual harassment and assault. Read more...

By Jake New. New study finds higher rates of sexual victimization at public institutions than private colleges. Read more...

By Jake New. Career centers are providing more access to some companies than others (for a fee), a move that has career counselors concerned institutions are selling students to the highest bidder. Read more...