This letter noted that the investigation regarding the tweets has been completed and that undisclosed actions “consistent with our expectation that all Knox faculty adhere to the College’s standards of faculty responsibility as articulated in the Faculty Handbook” were taken. More...

“Public universities cannot exclude a speaker based on their viewpoint, even a very offensive viewpoint. The law is clear,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and an expert in First Amendment law. More...

Walmart announced that it would offer to pay, at least in part, for its 1.4 million employees in the United States—part-time, full-time, and salaried—to go to college, with some restrictions. More...

Military and veteran students now can get college credit for career experience and knowledge through DSST prior learning assessments (PLAs), due to a policy expansion by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) earlier this month. More...

The growth of third-party pathway providers – and of the private capital behind many of them – has helped to create a more competitive and commercialised landscape for recruiting international students, writes Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed. More...

By Teghan Simonton, The Chronicle of Higher Education. This semester, Elissa Steglich’s law students handled two cases of immigrant mothers seeking asylum in the United States, both separated from their young children in the process. One of the children was 18 months’ old. More...

By Michaela Martin and Pedro Henriquez Guajardo. Enrolments in higher education in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region have increased from 1.8 million students at the beginning of the 1970s to 24 million in 2015. According to estimates, the participation rate in the region is currently around 48% on average, but there are major differences in participation across the LAC countries. More...