Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Yale has announced a new procedure for considering the renaming of university buildings, which could allow for the renaming of Calhoun College. NPR's Audie Cornish talks to Jonathan Holloway, dean of Yale College, about the new procedure. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A coalition of people who say they were defrauded by Corinthian Colleges, ITT Technical Institutes, Art Institutes and other for-profit colleges are urging the Obama administration to cancel their debt before Donald Trump takes office. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Cengage, an education and technology company, and Practice Labs, a London-based edtech company, announced the integration of live virtual machine labs into MindTap, Cengage's flagship digital learning platform. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. DataCore Software, a leading provider of Hyper-converged Virtual SAN, Software-Defined Storage and Adaptive Parallel I/O Software, today announced that a growing number of educational institutions are deploying its DataCore Hyper-converged Virtual SAN and comprehensive and scalable storage services platform SANsymphony to address mission-critical IT challenges, increase performance and reduce infrastructure costs. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. How much support is there for the loose-knit coalition of white nationalists and other far-right extremists known as the "alt-right"? Despite a spike in media coverage for the movement in the wake of Donald Trump's victory, a recent conference hosted by white nationalist Richard Spencer, who coined the term "alt-right," drew only about 275 attendees in Washington, DC. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. When the builders of Texas' planned high speed rail system put shovel to dirt, architecture students from the University of Texas at Austin, UT-Arlington and Prairie View A&M may have helped drive the design. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. For the first time in its almost 200-year history, the University of Alabama will allow a Jewish student group to display a menorah on campus during the Chanukah season, December 24 through January 1. This new seasonal display demonstrates the University’s desire to create a campus life that embodies collaboration, collegiality, respect, and a culture of inclusivity. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. In the last few years, hundreds of schools across the United States have endorsed the idea that giving teens access to college classes while they’re still in the relative cocoon of high school helps ease the transition to higher education. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. USA Funds is transferring ownership of its education loan guarantor affiliates United Student Aid Funds, the nation’s largest education loan guarantor, and Northwest Education Loan Association (NELA) to Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation effective Jan. 1, 2017. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Graduate education is far from the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of for-profit education. This sector and the schools in it have largely built their reputations on short training programs tied to entry-level occupations in fields such as allied health or criminal justice. More...