By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration and a large coalition of state attorneys general announced on Monday a double hit against one of the nation’s largest for-profit education companies. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The Education Department says it's going to get tougher with college accreditors. But are those federally recognized watchdogs too big to fail. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Fallout from a racially charged art project at SUNY Buffalo could lead to guidelines some say will impede free student expression. Read more...

By Josh Logue. Has edX become a platform for a Chinese propaganda course?
EdX, provider of massive open online courses, hosts an assortment of offerings on Chinese history. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. The newest data from the Institute of International Education’s annual Open Doors survey shows a 10 percent increase in international students from 2013-14 to 2014-15 -- the highest annual rate of growth at any point over the last 35 years. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. Should universities incorporate internationally focused criteria in their tenure and promotion policies?
A majority of institutions (52 percent) have identified internationalization as one of their top five strategic priorities, but only a minority (8 percent) report having guidelines in place specifying international work or experience as a consideration in faculty tenure and promotion decisions. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Colleges and states have spent years working on ways to improve remedial education, especially as they find more students are graduating high school unprepared for the rigors of college. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The editors and editorial board members of the linguistics journal Lingua have stoked antipublisher sentiment with their highly publicized protest against Elsevier. But judging by past revolts, turning their popularity into editorial success for their new journal, Glossa, could be a challenge. Read more...

By Elizabeth Redden. In Palace of Ashes: China and the Decline of American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press), Mark S. Ferrara contrasts the “downward trajectory” of American higher education against the rise of China’s university system. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Survey of administrators finds more colleges are turning to those off the tenure track to teach courses online, but also a "fundamental divide" among institutions about how to handle those instructors. Read more...