The Warrior-Scholar Program hosts academic boot camps for veterans of the U.S. military to help them make the transition to college. Read more...

The U.S. is still the world’s leading science and engineering enterprise, but China is quickly closing that gap, according to a the National Science Board’s 2016 Science and Engineering Indicators report. Read more...

A group of national accreditors is seeking to weigh in on the dispute between the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools over whether that controversial accrediting organization has to hand over records to the consumer bureau. Read more...

State funding for public higher education has increased in the five years since the recession. However, those increases are not keeping pace with inflation. Just two states -- Utah and Massachusetts -- have had operating-fund support for public higher education that matched or surpassed the rate of inflation in each of those five years, according to a new report from the University of Alabama's Education Policy Center. Read more...

African-American students feel less mentally prepared for college than white students do but are also less likely to discuss those concerns or seek help for mental health issues, a new study has found. Read more...

In recent years the number of credit-rating downgrades to colleges and universities has significantly outnumbered the number of upgrades given by Standard & Poor's credit rating agency. Read more...

Can you imagine a world in which half of all college and university presidents are women?
The American Council on Education can, and it is hoping higher education can reach this goal by 2030. Read more...

Information security has leaped to the top of Educause's annual list of IT issues facing higher education, released Wednesday morning. Read more...

Colleges and universities reduced their emissions by 13 percent per square foot between 2007 and 2014, according to a report released Wednesday. Read more...

About 40 percent of admissions officers say they research applicants on social media, according to a survey released Wednesday by Kaplan Test Prep. Read more...