By Carl Straumsheim. Experts weigh in on what the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative needs to do to put the Facebook founder's billions of dollars toward expanding the use of personalized learning. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Bipartisan agreement would renew the expired loan program for two years -- but with some new eligibility restrictions that concern colleges. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The several-year decline in enrollment in American colleges and universities continued and arguably intensified this fall, driven by sharp dips in numbers of students at for-profit colleges, full-time students at community colleges and students aged 24 or more, according to new data from the National Student Clearinghouse. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Coming soon to your campus library? Reading desks where you can bike while studying. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. As a few Christian colleges move to accept gay and lesbian employees, Biola U adds wording to its policies strengthening its opposition. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Achieving the Dream promotes increased access to "middle skill" careers for community college students. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. A new report from the Center for Law and Social Policy recommends supplementing financial aid with other government assistance programs to help low-income students succeed in college. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. New paper argues for a bigger focus on the social factors that can make or break interdisciplinary teams in the social, national and computational sciences. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. In non-tenure-track instructors’ campaign for better working conditions, activists have pointed to accreditors as possible allies. Some accreditation standards, adjuncts say, already protect the rights of those off the tenure track, and college administrators ignore accreditors at their own peril. But a major accreditor is poised to eliminate specific protections for non-tenure-track faculty members from its standards, and some are worried that the body is taking two steps back. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Even before the recent, widespread student protests over campus climate issues, many colleges and universities were working to make their faculties more diverse. But can a department specifically reserve a position for an underrepresented minority candidate? That’s what some are asking after a job ad for an assistant professorship reserved for nonwhite, non-Asian Ph.D.s was abruptly deleted from a jobs site on Tuesday. Read more...