Delaware State University will cut 23 majors this fall, The Wilmington News Journal reported.
The 23 majors, which represent a quarter of the university’s programs, were chosen based on their low enrollment numbers. Read more...

Merrick B. Garland, President Obama's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, could well have a major impact on legal issues important to colleges, their students and their employees. But as a judge on a federal appeals court, Garland has not written major opinions on higher education law. Read more...

The Kentucky House of Representatives on Thursday approved a bill to make community college free, The Courier-Journal reported. Read more...

The governor of Kansas signed legislation Tuesday that will bar public colleges in the state from requiring student groups to accept members who don't share their core beliefs, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. Read more...

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system has frozen hiring at its 17 campuses at least through the end of the academic year, The Connecticut Post reported. Read more...

A new study featured in this month's edition of American Economic Review found that employers are less likely to accept a job applicant for a business or health job if they have attended a for-profit online institution than they would an applicant from a nonselective public institution. Read more...

The University of California at Berkeley on Thursday vowed to improve prevention efforts and responses to allegations of sexual assault and sex harassment. The announcement follows a series of incidents in which the university has been accused of ignoring longstanding harassment issues or of issuing light sanctions for serious violations of policy. Read more...

By Ryan Craig. The candidate's support comes disproportionately from those without bachelor's degrees -- but that may say more about the failure than the success of our higher education system, writes Ryan Craig. Read more...

By Carl Straumsheim. Academic advisers at the University of California at San Diego will this fall be able to tell on a scale from zero to 10 if the student sitting in front of them is on track to graduate within four years. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. After pledging to stop using five debt collectors last year over allegations they misled borrowers, U.S. Education Department gives two of them new business. Read more...