The Education Department, in issuing its proposed Title IX regulations, appears to believe our nation’s colleges and universities have gone too far in responding to allegations of sexual harassment and sexual violence. More...

The California Student Aid Commission voted to take the bold step of establishing the policies to govern an overhaul of the $2 billion Cal Grant program. More...

Nearly 120 years ago the eccentric sociologist/economist Thorstein Veblen wrote his Theory of the Leisure Class. More...

From debates over Confederate monuments to battles over America’s leadership in the world, understanding today’s contemporary challenges requires historical knowledge and historical perspective. More...

Students face more challenges than the loans that will dog them for years; some of them go hungry even as they go into hock to get that education. More...

College Lead Exchange, a division of WhatsBestforMe, Inc. and the higher education world’s first cloud-based, SaaS, self-service platform to match prospective students and the schools most likely to admit them, was formally launched today, following a testing period involving thousands of students and nearly one hundred schools. More...

D2L today announced that Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, a huge network of postsecondary educators in communities all across Texas, will be using the Brightspace platform to reach learners in every corner of the state. More...

Just a little over 24 hours after Brightwood College announced it was closing its doors and displacing students and staff with little explanation, other colleges are stepping in to help the students impacted. More...

Like many community colleges across the nation, Laney College in California developed stand-alone programs in renewable energy after Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided funding for those initiatives as part of a massive effort to stimulate the economy after the recession. More...

After a collapse caused construction delays earlier this year, Oregon State University says work on its new Forestry Building is coming along well. More...