By Scott Jaschik. City College of San Francisco can't meet state requirements for proving that it educated 16,000 students online in recent years, The San Francisco Chronicle reported. As a result, the college must repay nearly $39 million to the state. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. In a worldwide comparison of years of education, by religion, Jews emerged as the most educated group by far, in new research from the Pew Research Center. Jews have 13.4 years of formal schooling, on average, followed by Christians, at 9.3 years. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Hundreds of historians have issued a joint statement on the need to be vigilant about civil liberties. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The Association of American Medical Colleges announced Friday that it has written to President-elect Donald J. Trump and congressional leaders to urge them not to repeal the Affordable Care Act (widely known as Obamacare) unless there are systems put in place to provide "current coverage levels" for those who rely on it. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of Minnesota has announced it will remove a question from applications about whether applicants have been convicted of felonies. Student groups and the Obama administration have been urging colleges to reconsider such questions. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Numerous studies have questioned the conventional wisdom that first-year college students gain an average of 15 pounds. But research just published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior finds that the average senior weighs 10 pounds more than he or she did as a freshman. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Create a Promoting Lifelong Accountability Now program. Under the program, colleges would be required to submit plans to assure that tuition increases at less than the rate of inflation. Rewards and penalties would be established for those that succeed or fail at their plans. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. When two Muslim students at Nazareth College recently attended a service at a nearby church, someone at the church reported them to the Department of Homeland Security, which then sent New York state police to the college to confirm that they were students, The Democrat and Chronicle reported. The students were at the church to fulfill a requirement in a sociology of religion course that students attend religious services that are not of their own faith. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. Sessions, who at the time was the state's attorney general, urged the university to block the conference of the Southeastern Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual College Conference by saying that hosting the meeting would violate an Alabama law that barred public universities from using state support to promote "actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws." The university said that the First Amendment gave the conference organizers the right to meet on campus. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. When increasing numbers of American colleges in the 19th century started to admit women, many institutions -- whether women’s colleges or newly coeducational institutions -- revised their view of their moral missions. A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 (Cornell University Press) considers this important period in the history of American higher education. Read more...