By Kelly Field. Students searching for colleges on President Obama’s new College Scorecard can find detailed information on costs, graduation rates, and employment outcomes for thousands of colleges nationwide, from Harvard University to Harcum College. More...

By Peter Schmidt. The University of California’s leaders made plans to revisit the issue of campus intolerance on Thursday after their first crack at a statement against it was panned for ignoring a problem that had inspired their efforts, the harassment of Jewish students. More...

By Peter Schmidt. The practice of warning students about controversial material in college syllabi or before lectures has become the subject of intense debate in academe as growing numbers of instructors have opted to give students such advance notices and the range of topics covered by the warnings has grown more varied. More...

By Andy Thomason. A state judge has ordered Pennsylvania’s public-colleges system to stop making faculty members undergo criminal-background checks, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. The Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties had asked the judge to issue the injunction on the grounds that the vast majority of faculty members don’t teach minors. More...

By Andy Thomason. Borrowers using the federal government’s income-driven repayment plans are overwhelmingly low-income and much less likely to default, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. The report, which was requested by Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top Democrat on the Senate’s education committee, also encourages the Education Department to better spread the word about the programs. More...

By Andy Thomason. The chief executive of an unaccredited, for-profit university who pleaded guilty to participating in a visa-fraud scheme has been sentenced to one year in prison, the San Jose Mercury News reports. More...

By Andy Thomason. An administrator at Wheelock College, in Boston, has resigned after admitting she lifted passages from several college presidents for a welcome email to faculty members, The Boston Globe reports. More...

By Andy Thomason. The Georgia Board of Regents voted on Tuesday to change the name of Georgia Regents University to Augusta University, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The change followed an extended campaign against the original name, which the regents bestowed on the university in 2012, when Augusta State University and the Georgia Health Sciences University, both in Augusta, Ga., merged to create it. More...

By Andy Thomason. President Obama traveled to Iowa on Monday with his education secretary, Arne Duncan, to talk to high-school students about college access and affordability. During the question-and-answer session, a student asked the president about an unnamed Republican presidential contender’s proposal to defund “politically biased colleges.” More...

By Andy Thomason. The White House this weekend released a new consumer tool, the College Scorecard, aimed at helping students and their parents compare colleges. To the great delight of higher-ed wonks, the Obama administration also released the troves of data underlying the tool — including previously unavailable figures on student debt, loan repayment, and graduate earnings. More...