By Scott Jaschik. Many women's colleges, including some of the most prominent ones, started admitting transgender students several years ago. But others have held off. One in the latter group, Stephens College, in Missouri, has now announced that it will admit some transgender women, but will exclude trans men. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The University of California System is engaged in a high-stakes battle with Elsevier, the publishing giant whose contract with the UC system was slated to expire at the end of December 2018. With UC threatening to walk away unless it wins substantial changes in the way Elsevier charges for journal access, many see the showdown as significant. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Two scientists have used economic theory to suggest that the current system of awarding federal research grants is fundamentally broken. The scientists argue in an article in PLOS Biology that the rates at which scientists win grants from federal science agencies is now so low that it may no longer make economic sense for scholars to put in the effort to write the best possible application. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Lake Superior State University marks the end of each year by providing a list of words and phrases to banish in the new year. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Economists and discipline's main association face criticism that the field's power centers are a small number of top departments. Grad students, meanwhile, push for standards of conduct. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Author discusses his new book about “killing the five-paragraph essay” and other ways schools and colleges could do a better job of teaching writing. More...

By Scott Jaschik. Number of English majors is dropping and many language programs fight for survival. But at the MLA, professors share strategies that are boosting enrollments and in some cases forcing them to change what they teach. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The state of the humanities, admissions, race relations and graduate student life were topics that attracted many readers in 2018. More...

By Scott Jaschik. University admitted that its business school submitting fabricated statistics for years to U.S. News. Students filed a class action. More...

By Scott Jaschik. The U.S. Justice Department in December filed a brief to back a lawsuit by Christian groups against the University of Iowa. The university, as a condition of student groups being recognized, requires them to affirm that they do not discriminate on many measures, including sexual orientation and gender identity. More...