By Andrew Kreighbaum. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Tuesday that the Trump administration will issue new guidance on Title IX protections for transgender students. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Right-leaning policy thinkers push agenda to simplify loan system, inject bigger role for private lenders. But proposals to eliminate PLUS loans likely to draw opposition from advocacy groups. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump frequently asked African-American voters, "What do you have to lose by trying something new?". Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos called community colleges "a uniquely American national asset" in a speech Thursday that praised the work of those institutions while linking them to the priorities of the Trump administration and conservative leaders. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Association of nonleased campus stores unveils network designed to reduce their dependence on textbook profits and let colleges retain revenues many now pay to companies to operate the stores. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Years after an explosion of data changed how health care practitioners treated patients, a similar wave is poised to transform colleges' understanding of their students' learning. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The National Collegiate Athletic Association took a major step this year toward recognizing the importance of academic performance by voting to allocate, for the first time, millions of dollars based on how teams fare in the classroom. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. A university strives to persuade professors that digital courses can be rigorous and highly interactive as it builds an online program from scratch. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Could a treatment for Parkinson’s symptoms already be available? In today’s Academic Minute, Touro University’s Zvi Loewy takes a look at a somewhat unlikely source for relief. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The number of postdoctoral researchers at American universities held steady in 2015, with a majority of the positions still in the biomedical sciences and clinical medicine. But the proportion of all postdocs who were in those fields continued to decline, while those in neuroscience, engineering and the social sciences increased, according to new data from the National Science Foundation. Read more...