By Paul Fain. The federal government on Tuesday released an early look at student completion data that it collected as part of a winter 2016-17 survey of federal aid-eligible colleges. For the second year, the annual release from the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics includes a more comprehensive view of student success than the typical limitation of federal data to first-time, full-time students. More...
50 Colleges Hit With ADA Lawsuits
By Lindsay McKenzie. A blind man is taking 50 colleges to court, alleging their websites are inaccessible to people with disabilities. More...
Autograding System Goes Awry, Students Fume
By Lindsay McKenzie. Computer science students at the University of California, Berkeley, are frustrated with a malfunctioning autograding system. More...
‘We Will Survive -- Absolutely, We Will Survive’
By Greg Toppo. The deadly Camp Fire barely touched rural Butte College in Northern California -- but it likely changed the two-year college forever as hundreds of students, staff and faculty members lost everything. More...
Ganging Up on a Student Journalist?
By Greg Toppo. LIU Post student government association demands that President Kimberly Cline and the other officials publicly apologize for berating a co-editor of the student newspaper for its coverage of anonymous pamphlets targeting Cline and others. More...
Outreach to Ex-Students of Closed For-Profit
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education this week launched efforts to reach the roughly 20,000 students affected by the sudden closure of for-profit college chain Education Corporation of America. More...
Farm Bill Includes Wins for Colleges
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The $867 billion farm bill passed by Congress this week includes important wins for land-grant institutions, especially historically black colleges. More...
Education Department Changes to TEACH Program
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Department of Education will give teachers another chance to demonstrate their eligibility for the federal TEACH Grant program, according to a report by NPR. More...
Collapse of For-Profit Chain Long in the Making
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Shutdown of 70-campus Education Corporation of America is largest closure since collapse of Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech. Now many students will face similar questions over educational futures and debt. More...
Inspector General Will Scrutinize Civil Rights, OPM Providers in 2019
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Education Department’s Office of Inspector General will examine the department’s dismissal of civil rights complaints and the relationship between colleges and online program management providers, it said in its fiscal year 2019 annual plan released last week. More...