By Ashley A. Smith. Officials at the for-profit Grand Canyon University are announcing today that they will attempt another conversion to nonprofit status and have submitted an application to the institution's accreditor. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. A nonprofit civil rights watchdog group filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Essex County College in New Jersey for failing to respond to multiple open-records requests. The group, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE, requested the information after an adjunct professor was fired following her appearance on Fox News last summer. More...

By Ashley A. Smith. Education Corporation of America, a privately held for-profit chain of colleges, announced Thursday it would buy for-profit Vatterott Educational Centers. The financial details of the sale were not released. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Scholars and political leaders describe increasing concerns about Chinese government influence over teaching and research in the U.S. and Australia. More...

By Elizabeth Redden. Taiwan’s highest court has ordered a dentist to pay nearly $1 million to his mother, who paid for the cost of his dental training, The New York Times reported. More...

By Andrew Kreighbaum. Department of Education proposal would require student borrowers demonstrate an intent on the part of their college to mislead or deceive in order to get loan relief through borrower-defense claims. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. A widely shared article declaring libraries and archives to be among the fastest-declining industries in America has been debunked.
Last month a publication called 24/7 Wall St. published an article titled “America’s 25 Dying Industries.” Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the article analyzed how employment levels in various sectors changed between 2007 and 2016. More...

By Lindsay McKenzie. The degree-planning tool is being co-created by PSU’s Office of Student Success and BNED LoudCloud, a subset of BNED that focuses on software development. More...