By Doug Lederman. U.S. Education Secretary John King Jr. last week affirmed an administrative judge's March ruling that relieved now-defunct Decker College of a $31.6 million repayment the Education Department demanded the for-profit institution make in 2005. Read more...

By Doug Lederman.Do news media corporations actually function with eyes wide open? In today's Academic Minute, Robert Edgell of SUNY Polytechnic Institute examines this question. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum and Doug Lederman.Donald Trump provided relatively few clues to what he might do as president, but he'll probably try to reverse some of President Obama's priorities, rolling back regulations, creating new political opening for for-profit colleges and curtailing collective bargaining rights. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Potential revisions to the OMB's standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity draw interest from medical educators and anthropologists. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Students are more likely to drop out of college if they lose even small amounts of financial aid -- regardless of their grade point average -- according to a study from the Education Advisory Board, a research and consulting firm based in Washington. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Education Department said Friday it would restore Pell Grant eligibility for students whose education was interrupted by the closure of their institutions. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Department releases regulations to protect student borrowers against fraudulent and abusive institutions. Although rules are aimed at for-profit colleges, critics say they could have repercussions for all colleges. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. More than 50 national and state organizations signed a letter to the White House urging changes to the complaint system for student loan borrowers launched over the summer. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary John King announced a new program Monday through the office of Federal Student Aid that will pair loan guarantee agencies with minority-serving institutions to improve graduation, retention and cohort default rates at no cost to those colleges and universities. Read more...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Federal regulators indefinitely stay IRS enforcement ruling that subsidized health insurance plans for graduate students violated provisions of Affordable Care Act. Read more...