By Colleen Flaherty. System president's email criticizing tenure expectations and comparing professors to railroad brakemen adds to faculty frustration in Wisconsin. But the governor likes the email. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. New study argues science Ph.D.s often plan for postdocs without considering whether they're necessary or beneficial to their career plans. Actual evidence is mixed. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Rutgers professors vote a second time to seek access to and limits on use of data from Academic Analytics -- as faculty advocates vow to take such criticism to other campuses. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Princeton professor publishes CV of programs that rejected him, journals that said no and grant applications that were nixed. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. To sell themselves, colleges try to stand out. But often, their marketing efforts look practically identical. Read more...

By Paul Fain. National accreditor ACICS, which faces an existential threat for being too lax with bad actors like Corinthian Colleges, tried to yank its approval of Bristol U, a deeply troubled for-profit. But a judge blocked the accreditor's move. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. What does a 182-year-old law mean for Connecticut’s colleges and universities in 2016. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Study finds that students who start at community college earn bachelor's degrees at much lower rates -- but those who transfer fare as well as (or better than) "native" four-year-college students. Read more...

By Jake New. Association earned praise for condemning Indiana law that permitted discrimination against gay people. Why doesn't it take a similar stance against its own members. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Penn State U's World Campus plans further changes to its faculty development efforts after an online teaching certificate program became a surprise hit among graduate students. Read more...