By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Education Department has removed the “independent monitor” of campuses formerly owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc. after an Associated Press investigation revealed several conflicts of interest in the arrangement. The AP reports that the department confirmed it would drop the law firm of Hogan Marren Babbo & Rose as the overseer of the Zenith Education Group’s management of the campuses. More...

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Senate has confirmed the nomination of John B. King Jr. to be secretary of education by a vote of 49 to 40. Mr. King has served as acting education secretary since December, when Arne Duncan stepped down from the permanent post. More...

By Andy Thomason. A group of biologists gathered last month outside Washington, D.C., for a conference that could help spur change in how the discipline publishes its work. United under the name ASAPbio, attendees discussed how they might upend the traditional publishing structure in the interest of speeding up scientific discovery and making scholarship more publicly accessible. More...

By Andrew Mytelka. A Vanderbilt University graduate student was stabbed to death on Tuesday in Israel in an attack by a Palestinian man who was then shot dead, according to the New York Daily News. More...

By Andy Thomason. According to a Chronicle analysis of data released on Friday, 159 degree-granting private colleges failed the U.S. Education Department’s financial-responsibility test, which seeks to quantify the financial health of proprietary and nonprofit institutions, for the 2013-14 academic year. That’s one more than failed the year before. More...

By Andy Thomason. The Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities has lost another challenge to the U.S. Department of Education’s gainful-employment rule. More...

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education’s inspector general has expressed new concerns about a 2015 departmental review of loan servicers, which concluded that the companies generally obeyed rules governing a low-interest-rate benefit for active-duty service members. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. In showing respect for their favorite professors, today’s college students have ventured well beyond the proverbial apple. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. A couple of million dollars and a pending name change later, the longstanding dispute between Baylor University, in Waco, Tex., and the Baylor Alumni Association is officially settled, the Waco Tribune-Herald reports. More...

By Courtney Kueppers. Students at community colleges are more likely than their peers at four-year institutions to be struggling with mental illnesses, but are less likely to have access to mental-health services, according to a report released this week. More...