By Andy Thomason. A federal judge has ruled that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau doesn’t have the legal authority to investigate the accreditation of for-profit colleges. More...

By Andy Thomason. As it endures criticism for what is seen as faulty oversight of for-profit colleges, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools has told ITT Educational Services Inc. to demonstrate that its accreditation should not be revoked. More...

By Andy Thomason. More than 45 percent of Americans ages 25 to 64 had some “quality postsecondary credential” in 2014, according to an annual report released on Monday by the Lumina Foundation. More...

By Andy Thomason. Thirteen state attorneys general have asked that federal recognition not be renewed for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, the much-maligned accreditor of, for one, the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges. The request was made in a letter on Friday to the heads of the U.S. Education Department and the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity, known as Naciqi. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. A 121-year-old Confederate monument at the University of Louisville will be removed, its president, James R. Ramsey, and the Kentucky city’s mayor, Gregory E. Fischer, announced at a news conference on Friday morning, according to the Courier-Journal. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. After drawing attention from online commenters, the University of Utah has removed references on its website to an honorary-degree recipient’s leadership of two anti-LGBT groups, reports The Salt Lake Tribune. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. The University of California at Berkeley will eliminate 500 staff positions over the next two years in an attempt to balance its budget, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. Shortly after George Mason University announced last week that it would rename its law school as the Antonin Scalia School of Law in honor of the late Supreme Court justice, people on social media began pointing out the new school’s unfortunate acronym. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. The school of public affairs at Princeton University, as well as an undergraduate residential college, will continue to bear Woodrow Wilson’s name, the university’s Board of Trustees announced in a statement on Monday. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. Report: “Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey”

Authors: Christine Wolff, Alisa B. Rod, and Roger C. Schonfeld; Ms. Wolff and Mr. Schonfeld are at Ithaka S+R, the consulting-and-research arm of the nonprofit group Ithaka, which focuses on technology in academe; Ms. Rod is associate director of the Empirical Reasoning Center at Barnard College

Summary: This latest edition of a survey that is conducted every three years found an uptick in faculty members who believe undergraduate students are arriving at college with inadequate research skills. More...