By Ashley A. Smith. The College Promise Campaign released its first report Monday examining more than 150 Promise programs across 37 states that are offering some form of free community college. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Colleges are re-examining their student enrollment data to better understand how courses are scheduled in an effort to fix capacity problems. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Northeast Texas Community College is connecting small farmers with the area’s residents in hopes of helping the agriculture industry and promoting health in the region. Read more...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Almost anyone who works in academe has to navigate a complex world of gossip and reputation, which in theory keeps certain types of bad behavior -- such as mistreating students or stealing ideas from colleagues -- in check. More...

By Paul Fain. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked an appeals court to throw out a lower court's ruling that the federal agency lacks the authority to investigate accreditors' oversight of for-profit colleges, Politico reported. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Investors fret that the Education Department's lengthy scrutiny of the U of Phoenix's proposed sale means the deal might be nixed. Politics and optics might be reasons for the delay. Read more...

By Paul Fain. Blackboard today released a study on how instructors and students in 70,000 courses across 927 institutions used Blackboard Learn, the company's learning management system. Read more...

By Paul Fain. New America today released a paper that analyzes the use of data to predict student success, so-called predictive analytics. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Harvard University did not defame or breach a contract with a former law school student when it noted a plagiarism finding on her transcript, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. Read more...

By Doug Lederman. Federal appeals court rules that Central Lakes College acted legally when it kicked a student out of a nursing program for comments deemed unprofessional and threatening. Read more...