By Scott Jaschik. Inside Higher Ed, in collaboration with Gallup, is holding a conference, "Joining Forces: Merger and Collaboration Strategies," on Thursday, April 19, in Washington. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Florida State shares data showing that high school students are in fact earning higher grades. Yet the predictive value of the high school GPA hasn't changed. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Georgetown University and the American Federation of Teachers on Monday announced an agreement under which graduate students at the university will be permitted to vote on whether to have the AFT represent them for collective bargaining. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Email messages circulating online and on social media have been asking why a conference on cyberwarfare and artificial intelligence, scheduled for later this week at Yale University, appears to have only men scheduled to speak. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The start of the academic year saw the publication of several books by scholars about free speech on campus. Now joining those volumes is Speak Freely: Why Universities Must Defend Free Speech (Princeton University Press). More...

By Scott Jaschik. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, created by President Obama to help young people brought by their relatives to the United States without legal authorization to stay, has had a significant, positive impact on the educational attainment of those students, especially female students, according to a new paper. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The Kentucky General Assembly late Monday reached agreement on a budget plan with provisions (including cuts to operating budgets for higher education) opposed by many academics in the state. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses her new book, which argues that federal laws that weren't focused on gender led to rise in female enrollments in higher education. More...

By Scott Jaschik. A University of Chicago police officer shot and seriously injured a student Tuesday night, the Chicago Tribune reported. University officials said the incident happened when police officers responded to a report of someone breaking car and apartment windows with a large pipe. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of Connecticut is opposing legislation designed to make it more entrepreneurial, saying it goes too far in promoting a narrow definition of the institution, The Hartford Courant reported. More...