By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos this week delayed for the second time a final decision on the federal recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools, an oversight body the Obama administration had sought to eliminate. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. A proposed rule dealing with campus sexual misconduct would narrow the definition of sexual harassment and only hold colleges accountable for investigating formal complaints, according to a report Wednesday in The New York Times. The Wall Street Journal separately reported details of the proposal. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. After a financial aid scandal led to a federal review, prominent historically black college is placed on cash monitoring sanctions by Education Department. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Q&A with the co-editors of an anthology of essays on accreditation about new challenges for the college oversight bodies. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Federal Trade Commission has reached agreements to shut down several copycat military websites that targeted people looking to join the armed services and then used their personal information to market for-profit colleges, the commission announced Thursday. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. An accreditor places each college of the for-profit Center for Excellence in Higher Education on probation, finding misrepresentations to students and -- at one campus -- discriminatory attitudes toward students. More...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Senate on Thursday approved an $857 billion spending bill covering education, health care and defense that includes new funding for Pell Grants and campus-based research. More...
By Emma Whitford. Following the College of the Ozarks' Wednesday announcement that it would cut ties with Nike, some other universities are reconsidering their contracts with the athletics apparel company after it debuted its latest “Just Do It” campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick. More...
By Emma Whitford. University of Florida is eliminating graduation ceremonies featuring every graduate walking across the stage. Many students are angry and see a link to dispute that set off racial debate at spring ceremony. More...
By Emma Whitford. Purdue University students who were hoping to sneak in an episode of Queer Eye during their economics lecture are out of luck. The university recently debuted a pilot program that restricts access to five popular streaming sites -- Netflix, Hulu, Steam, Apple Updates and iTunes -- during class time in four of its biggest lecture halls. More...
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