By Steve Kolowich. Being a professor involves a lot of paperwork. Being an administrator involves even more. Filling out charmless forms according to a set of seemingly arbitrary specifications can be tedious, even overwhelming. And the managers above aren’t having any fun, either. More...

By Eric Hoover. ACT Inc. will offer a new multiple-choice examination for 10th graders this fall, the Iowa-based organization announced on Tuesday. Designed to help students prepare for the ACT exam, the PreACT will test students in English, mathematics, reading, and science. More...

By Nick DeSantis. Several colleges fell victim last week to a hack by a neo-Nazi group that resulted in network-connected campus printers’ spitting out fliers featuring anti-Semitic messages, according to the Associated Press and other news outlets.
Princeton, Brown, and DePaul University, as well as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of California at Davis, and the University of Southern California were among the colleges that saw the fliers appear on their campuses. More...

By Nick DeSantis. A team representing Harvard University has been disqualified from an intercollegiate video-game tournament for cheating, ESPN reported. The winners of the competition, called “Heroes of the Dorm,” receive tuition money for their college careers, according to the event’s website. More...

By Rio Fernandes. The University of Maryland has acknowledged “shortcomings” in its handling of a highly criticized study that prompted news releases claiming that athletes could see benefits from a brand of chocolate milk produced by a company that helped fund the research. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. In a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education filed on Wednesday, the National Consumer Law Center, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Massachusetts demanded access to information on student-loan debt collection and its racial impact. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. Security-related problems with the SAT in Asia have been announced since 2013, but the problems are more widespread than previously known, Reuters reports. More...

By Andy Thomason. Organized opposition to a controversial new law in North Carolina is taking shape, and university students and faculty and staff members are playing a leading role. More...

By Andy Thomason. The University of California system is enrolling too many out-of-state students, at the expense of California residents, a new state audit has found. More...