By Carl Straumsheim. More library and higher education groups on Thursday threw their support behind the editors of the linguistics journal Lingua, upping the pressure on publisher Elsevier. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Instructure’s incursion into the learning management system market reached a new stage last month as the company filed for its initial public offering. As the company prepares to go public, paperwork filed with the federal government suggests Instructure still spends about 80 cents on sales and marketing for every dollar it brings in. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. As the Obama administration announces a set of executive actions and proposed legislative steps to toughen its oversight of the agencies, a U.S. Senate investigative committee has opened a sweeping inquiry into higher education accreditation, and lawmakers have started requesting records of individual accrediting agencies, according to several people familiar with the review. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. The Obama administration is trying to ratchet up already growing pressure on accrediting agencies to focus more intently on whether colleges are graduating students with the skills they need to get jobs and repay their loans. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. The public -- and heck, many people in higher education -- widely assume prestigious colleges and universities provide the best quality education. That's why employers often want to hire their graduates and why many parents want their children to attend them. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Elsevier doesn't always respond in detail to criticism that advocates for open access direct at the journal publishing giant. Open-access supporters say publishing can have high academic quality and be free online without the high subscription prices Elsevier charges. The company says its critics underestimate the true costs of publishing. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. This fall has been a challenging one for Albany State University, a historically black institution in Georgia.
In October, the university fired four financial aid officials after a state audit found misconduct involving federal funds dating back to 1985. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. The call to increase the number of U.S. adults with college degrees and improve college completion rates across the country has only grown louder in recent years. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. The term "first generation" tends to be thrown around a lot by educators and policy makers. But what does the term mean? 
Does a first-generation college student come from a home where neither parent earned a college degree? What if at least one parent graduated college. Read more...

By Kellie Woodhouse. During the recession, college prices increased steeply while borrowing rose rapidly. Loan defaults increased, too. Now borrowing has declined slightly for the fourth straight year, defaults have steadied and tuition increases at public universities over the past three years have been at their lowest levels since the 1970s, according to the College Board’s 2015 “Trends in Higher Education” reports. Read more...