By Scott Jaschik. A report by Harvard University's government department has found a “deplorable situation” and a “prolonged institutional failure” in the way the department ignored allegations that a prominent scholar there harassed women, The Boston Globe reported. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Former dean of Temple business school, which admitted the fabrication of data for rankings, says he has been made into a scapegoat and had his reputation tarnished unfairly. University vows to fight in court. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A federal jury on Thursday found several executives of Insys, an opioid company, guilty of racketeering in promoting their drugs. More...

By Scott Jaschik. New College of Florida is facing criticism from on and off campus over policies to conduct extra reviews of applicants whose essays disclose disabilities -- psychological or otherwise -- even if those applicants would have been otherwise eligible for automatic admission. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Scores of students and faculty members at Arkansas Tech University held a rally Tuesday to protest the university's recent decision to name a scholarship for a late professor many view as a Holocaust denier. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte announced Wednesday that the two people killed in Tuesday's on-campus shooting were students. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Editors discuss new volume of essays on the ways higher education is changing because of issues of race, gender and sexuality -- and how they think higher ed needs to change even more. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The board of Baldwin Wallace University voted last week to end the institution's affiliation with the United Methodist Church. The university will maintain its chapel and provide services for students who are Methodist (as well as for those from other faiths). More...