By Brock Read. Omar A. Khadr, a Canadian who was held in the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base for 10 years, was granted bail on Thursday by a court in Edmonton, Alberta, while he appeals his convictions in the United States, the CBC reported. More...

By Brock Read. The Education Management Corporation, a for-profit higher-education company beset by layoffs and debt, will shut down 15 of its Art Institute campuses, the company disclosed on Wednesday.
The closures are the latest in a long line of indicators of EDMC’s precarious financial position. As of last summer, the company’s debt payments were outpacing its revenue; EDMC has already conducted several rounds of layoffs and sold its Art Institute of Pittsburgh building. More...

By Peter Schmidt. Although nearly three-fourths of part-time college instructors said in a survey that they would rather be working full time, their chief source of job dissatisfaction was not their underemployment but a perceived lack of respect from their full-time colleagues and administrators, according to a new study. More...

By Andy Thomason. Two universities this week put a halt to policies governing students’ speech after being sued by students allied with the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, known as FIRE. More...

By Andy Thomason. Students who last year transferred from Connecticut’s community colleges to the University of Connecticut lost millions of dollars in credits that did not accompany them, a study has found.
The analysis, conducted by John Mullane, a counselor at Gateway Community College, takes the roughly 20 percent of credits the university said it did not accept from transfer students, and calculates the cost to those students. More...