Stephen Hawking, the Emeritus Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and more than 150 other Royal Society fellows are warning that Britain’s exit from the European Union would be a “disaster” for science in the United Kingdom. Read more...

The National Center for Education Statistics released its assessment of young adults' skills yesterday and found American adults lag behind their international peers in numeracy and problem solving. Read more...

The top officials at the U.S. Department of Education are hitting the road to promote their higher education agenda for the remaining months of the Obama administration. Read more...

The University of Minnesota’s top faculty committee voted 7 to 2 last week to provisionally support a statement backing free speech on campus as the institution’s “paramount value,” according to The Washington Post. Read more...

The U.S. Department of Education is considering a proposal that would prohibit colleges from including mandatory arbitration clauses in their enrollment agreements with students, the department announced Friday. Read more...

Colleges and universities should embrace a new financial model in which campus financial data are linked to student outcomes information and shared much more transparently with key campus constituencies, a new report from the American Council on Education and the TIAA-CREF Institute argues. Read more...

The Human Terrain System was controversial throughout its history -- and that history may still be going on. The program set off intense debates among anthropologists and other social scientists when the U.S. Army in 2005-6 introduced the idea of embedding scholars with military units in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more...

When the University System of Georgia in November announced plans to merge Albany State University and nearby Darton State College, officials said that the combined institution would preserve Albany State's mission as a historically black institution. Read more...

The U.S. Senate has confirmed John B. King Jr. as the nation’s 10th secretary of education. Read more...

The U.S. Department of Education plans to replace the law firm that has been overseeing Zenith Education Group’s operation of the campuses it purchased from the now-defunct Corinthian Colleges. Read more...