By Doug Lederman. When states cut funding for their public colleges, the institutions almost always raise tuition to make up for it. When states increase funding, the reverse isn't always true. More...

By Doug Lederman. Moody's Investors Service on Wednesday downgraded the credit rating of the University of Alaska system and changed its outlook for outstanding bonds to negative, citing the pending plan to cut roughly 40 percent of the university's annual state appropriation. More...

By Doug Lederman. The University of Wisconsin system has agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a former student at the system's Oshkosh campus alleging that one of her professors sexually harassed her, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. More...

By Doug Lederman. A coalition of groups representing veterans, working adults and historically underrepresented students have teamed up to form a new organization designed to change federal and other policies to better recognize how "today's students" differ from the traditional 18- to 24-year-olds who've historically dominated postsecondary enrollments. More...

By Doug Lederman. The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a renowned writer's long-standing quest for records explaining why the state's higher education commissioner blocked a former University of Montana athlete's expulsion for an alleged rape, the Associated Press reported. More...

By Doug Lederman. A British court overturned a lower court's ruling supporting a university's decision to bar a student from his social work graduate program for a Facebook posting that said homosexuality was a sin, the BBC reported. More...

By Doug Lederman. Alaska's legislators failed Wednesday to override Governor Mike Dunleavy's veto of budget legislation that cut $130 million, or 41 percent, from the state's appropriation for the University of Alaska system, the Anchorage Daily News reported. More...

By Doug Lederman. A for-profit college in Massachusetts will pay $1.6 million in debt relief to former students and shut its doors, the state's attorney general announced Thursday. More...

By Doug Lederman. Last year Inside Higher Ed's Survey of College and University Business Officers found four-year private college officials to be increasingly concerned about the viability of their institutions -- and more worried than their peers at other institutions. More...

By Doug Lederman. A college that has been training workers in the Illinois city of Peoria since the late 1800s is the latest career-oriented institution to fail, the Journal-Star of Peoria reported. More...