Some Connecticut politicians want to tax some of Yale University's endowment, leading to frustration in New Haven. Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday announced a 4-4 tie -- leaving an appeals court's decision intact -- on a case that could have dealt a significant blow to the unions that represent faculty members and other employees at public colleges and universities. Read more...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is adding a second degree program made up of stackable courses offered by massive open online course provider Coursera. Read more...

A new report from the Institute of International Education provides data on the range of noncredit educational activities students are pursuing abroad, including volunteering and service learning, work or internships, research or fieldwork, study tours, religious missions, and travel for academic conferences, artistic performances or athletic competitions. Read more...

Faculty unions in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System are objecting to a new system rule that says officials may inspect the personal mobile phones or other devices of professors, if the professors sometimes use these devices for work, The Star Tribune reported. Read more...

A program that allows international students in Canada to work for up to three years after graduation is creating a low-wage workforce and encouraging the creation of low-quality university programs, says an internal Citizenship and Immigration Canada report obtained by the CBC. Read more...

A Reuters investigation found that the security of the SAT has been compromised in Asia much more frequently than the College Board, the nonprofit entity that owns the test, has publicly acknowledged. Read more...

About 6 percent of students who took an online final exam proctored by Examity last fall broke the rules, the company said on Tuesday. That adds up to 3,952 out of the 62,534 exams the test-proctoring company reviewed. Most of the attempts to cheat came in the form of a cheat sheet (21 percent) or using Google to look up answers or translations (14 percent). Read more...

Americans with higher levels of education and income are more likely to take advantage of lifelong learning opportunities such as reading a magazine, attending a conference or enrolling in an online course, a new Pew Research Center study found. Read more...

The University of Pittsburgh and Seamus Johnston, a transgender ex-student who sued the university, jointly announced a settlement of the suit on Tuesday. Read more...