By Nancy Zimpher. While the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard website may be a scaled-back version of what President Obama first announced on the State University of New York’s own Buffalo campus in 2013, it will be a useful tool for providing the information students and their families need to make decisions about college costs and return on investment. Read more...

By Christopher B. Nelson. Here’s the good news about the new College Scorecard: no rankings. In dropping its proposed plan, the Obama administration showed recognition of the difficulty -- indeed, the impossibility -- of providing students and their families with measurements that could determine which colleges offer “best value” and “worst value.” Read more...

By Paul Fain. Regulation stifles innovation, the complaint goes, protecting the status quo and existing institutions at the expense of alternative providers. But it's not always so. Read more...

By Josh Logue. The State University of New York at Buffalo community was reeling this week after signs saying “white only” and “black only” appeared Wednesday beside water fountains and bathrooms around campus. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Dartmouth College this month appointed Susan Taffe Reed as director of its Native American Program. In a news release, the college noted Taffe Reed's academic background (a Cornell University Ph.D. and postdocs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Bowdoin College), her research interest (ethnomusicology) and something else: Taffe Reed, Dartmouth noted, is president of Eastern Delaware Nations Inc. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. Georgia Regents University is changing its name. Again.
As of Tuesday, it’s Augusta University.
The change is the second in three years at the 9,200-student public university. When Augusta State University merged with Georgia Health Sciences University in 2012, the institutions took the name Georgia Regents University. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. First-time graduate school enrollment was up 3.5 percent in 2014 from the year before, the biggest annual increase since 2009, according to a report out today from the Council of Graduate Schools. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Who needs the faculty? A new working paper by the Campaign for the Future of Higher Education, a coalition of faculty unions and other academic associations, asks that question and answers resoundingly that face time with faculty members is key to student success. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term's application to historical events can get heated. But can such debates ever get a student kicked out of class. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. In a political climate where every single issue or policy seems to have a dividing line between Democrats and Republicans, the National Science Foundation’s Advanced Technological Education program has been able to exist above the fray. Read more...