By Maxine Joselow. City University of New York is considering a new policy that it says will protect academic freedom, but some fear it could be used to squelch dissent. Read more...

By Maxine Joselow. After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained. So the board shifted to one-year contracts. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Education Department will push to finalize rule on state approval of online programs before the end of the year. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The University System of New Hampshire is launching a yearlong open education initiative to promote affordable textbooks, collaboration and open-access publishing. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. The publisher and the university last month announced a pilot that would link UF's institutional repository of scholarly work to Elsevier's ScienceDirect platform, giving subscribers to Elsevier's journals access to articles by UF authors. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Colleges that accommodate transgender students by letting them choose preferred names and pronouns find their efforts hindered by out-of-date software and federal reporting requirements. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. FutureLearn, the online learning platform owned by the Open University in the U.K., now offers massive open online courses that award academic credit. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Colleges that use Jenzabar's software will soon be able to ensure that all students have access to their textbooks on the first day of class. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Psychology instructor withdraws book chapter after refusing to add language that he asserts a publisher demanded but he deemed too flattering to the textbook industry. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. New book explores how academic libraries can shape their services to better serve higher education -- and what librarians should do to make it happen. Read more...