Three students were shot early Wednesday at a house party just off the campus of Tennessee State University, The Tennessean reported. That report (and others) said those shot (all of whom have been hospitalized) included one student each from Tennessee State and Middle Tennessee State University. Read more...

Most colleges and universities had regular class schedules on Monday, Columbus Day. But Native American activists and their supporters are urging colleges that do observe Columbus Day or those that don't to start observing a day to honor indigenous groups in America, and to remember how their rights were ignored. Brown University in 2009 decided to stop referring to Columbus Day as such, but instead to call it the Fall Weekend Holiday. Read more...

A new online tool aims to highlight how colleges and universities across the country are “powerful constituents” of their respective members of Congress. Read more...

Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders clashed briefly over their college affordability plans during the Democratic Party’s first debate Wednesday night. Read more...

An outside study on gender equity at the University of California Anderson School of Management has found that female faculty members tend to feel bias of various kinds in the hiring and promotion process and in decision making. Read more...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating Wells Fargo over its student loan servicing practices, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Read more...

Could blind analysis of data — meaning that an investigator or computer program obscures data values or labels, or both, and that, more generally, as much analysis as possible is done “in the dark” in relation to expected results — help decrease bias towards certain research findings. Read more...

Four people were shot at Northern Arizona University early this morning, and one of them died, the university announced. Read more...

The job market for college graduates is in for a third straight year of “explosive” growth, according to the largest annual survey of U.S. employers. Michigan State University’s Recruiting Trends report projects a 15 percent jump in hiring across all degree levels, driven primarily by growing companies and employee turnover. Read more...

The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success -- a group of more than 80 colleges planning a new application platform -- was announced last week and quickly ran into considerable criticism. On Wednesday, in response to some of that criticism, the coalition sent a letter to high school counselors announcing that the launch of a key feature was being pushed back from January to April. Read more...