The results of the latest inter-associational survey on measuring international student interest in obtaining an education in the United States was released. The study examined the "yield" of international student applicants, namely the percentage of students who have accepted an offer of admission to attend a U.S. college or university. More...

Algebra problems like this one are at the heart of a dispute over the level of math deemed necessary to earn an associate degree or transfer to a four-year college. Failure to complete intermediate algebra has stumped tens of thousands of California community college students each year, keeping them in a limbo that has sparked increasing criticism of the state’s (and much of the nation’s) one-size-fits-all math requirement. More...

The owners of University House, a student housing complex near LSU’s North Gate, sued the property’s former owners several months ago asking for $2.6 million—but the bill has since risen by nearly $1 million. More...

When the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in 2016 to hear arguments in Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer, school voucher advocates saw an opportunity. More...

A New Jersey man charged with calling in a threat to The Evergreen State College that shut the campus down last month has been released from jail on condition that he have no more contact with the Olympia school, not possess any firearms and undergo a mental-health evaluation, according to prosecutors. More...

With 30 transfer credits and a 3.8 GPA from taking classes while incarcerated, the Louisiana native filled out an application to attend the University of New Orleans. More...

A consultant conducting a strategic review of Pennsylvania's 14 state-owned universities as well as the system that oversees them will present its much-anticipated recommendations to the system's board on July 12, officials said Wednesday. More...

Using lists of names collected from publicly available websites, two University of Chicago researchers have revealed distinctive patterns in higher education systems, ranging from ethnic representation and gender imbalance in the sciences, to the presence of academic couples, and even the illegal hiring of relatives in Italian universities. More...

EAB announced today the first Student Success Management System (SSMS), a new category of enterprise technology that enables students, faculty, administrators, advisors, and other student support professionals to work together to guide students toward their graduation and employment goals. More...

In higher education, they’re the equivalent of gig workers: Part-time professors who power many of the area’s colleges, cobbling together teaching assignments each semester at one or two universities at a time. More...