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 Andrew Mytelka. A feminist group at the University of Mary Washington is complaining to the U.S. Education Department that the Virginia institution did not properly respond to threats against the group’s members that were posted on Yik Yak, the anonymous social-media app that has been controversial on many campuses, The Washington Post reports. More...

By Andrew Mytelka. An Arizona judge ruled on Tuesday that students brought to the United States illegally by their parents were eligible to pay cheaper in-state tuition in the Maricopa County Community College District, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Charles Huckabee. In a clarification of its admissions policy, Smith College has announced that it will begin accepting undergraduate applicants who consider themselves to be transgender women. The decision, approved by the college’s Board of Trustees on Saturday, “affirms Smith’s unwavering mission and identity as a women’s college, our commitment to representing the diversity of women’s lived experiences, and the college’s exceptional role in the advancement of women worldwide,” the college said in a statement on its website. More...

By Charles Huckabee. A man identified as a South Korean student of New York University has been arrested in North Korea and charged with entering the country illegally, The New York Times reported. More...

By Andy Thomason. A new agreement between American and European scientists will allow collaboration on research projects on both continents, The New York Times reports. The pact, signed on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN, allows American researchers to keep working on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, and CERN scientists to work on projects in the United States. The deal could free up funding for a facility that American physicists want to build in Illinois to study neutrinos. More...

By Andy Thomason. Immigrants who were brought to the United States illegally by their parents will qualify for in-state tuition at Arizona’s three public universities, the Board of Regents decided on Thursday. The Arizona Daily Star reports that the regents’ decision takes effect immediately. 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...