By Paul Fain. Administrators and instructors at Austin Community College decided to go big when they tried a new approach to remedial math -- like 600 computer stations in the nation's largest learning lab big. Read more...

By Ry Rivard. The system is launching a new program that guarantees students admission to nine HBCUs if they graduate with an associate degree. The deal allows a student with 60 community college credits to enter the historically black colleges as a junior. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Tennessee's free community college program is exceeding expectations. Demand remains high and the state's completion rates for federal aid applications are up, which is putting colleges on notice about a likely influx of students. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. University of Oklahoma President David L. Boren drew praise last week when he swiftly moved to punish members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon caught singing a racist song -- much like he did when members of the same fraternity in 1996 stole a tepee and placed it on a sorority house lawn. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. After a New York University professor who has written critically of migrant labor issues in the United Arab Emirates was blocked from boarding a plane to Abu Dhabi, some are asking what the implications are for N.Y.U.’s branch campus there. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Kicking off what will likely be months of contentious budget battles, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday released a 2016 funding blueprint that calls for freezing the maximum Pell Grant award. Read more...

By Kaitlin Mulhere. Students at Brown University are raising questions about an investigation and hearings involving a reported drugging and sexual assault on campus last fall. Read more...

By Jake New. Here's how Inside Higher Ed's bracket works: to determine the winners, we first look to the Academic Progress Rate, the N.C.A.A.'s multiyear measure of a team's classroom performance. When two teams tie, we turn to the N.C.A.A.'s Graduation Success Rate, which measures the proportion of athletes on track to graduate within six years. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Are international branch campuses a fad or a sustainable new organizational form?
“It’s not either/or,” Anna Kosmützky, a sociologist at the University of Kassel, in Germany, said Friday during a session here at the Comparative and International Education Society annual conference. “There are multiple fads, but this new form, this new species, probably won’t die out."
But that doesn't mean the trend is always logical, she suggested. Read more...