By Ashley A. Smith. The campaign for free community college hasn't slowed in the wake of Tennessee and Oregon moving to cover tuition costs of recent high school graduates who pursue higher education at two-year colleges. Major cities like Detroit are pushing forward with their own plans, and now one more state is close to covering tuition and fees for its students. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Governors State U, with many at-risk students, and without much money, opts to fill freshman program course sections with full-time faculty members only. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Newly confirmed Education Secretary John B. King Jr. will chastise higher education for inequality and urge colleges and universities to do more for low-income students. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights brought needed attention to the problem of sexual assault and harassment on college campuses with its 2011 letter telling institutions to enforce the law. But in so doing, the office has created a slew of new problems with implications for free speech and academic freedom. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Community colleges are getting creative with how they handle low enrollment and money problems. A two-year college in Ohio has gone farther than most by hiring education juggernaut Pearson to handle marketing, recruitment and retention of students. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. Education Department may restrict common practice of for-profit colleges that prevents their students from suing them. Read more...

By Jake New. The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled last week that private college police departments are subject to the state’s open records laws, but a bill passed earlier this month by Indiana’s General Assembly could undercut the ruling. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Is the tyrannical reign of the P value finally ending (if it was ever tyrannical at all)? An unprecedented statement from the American Statistical Association seeks to usher in a “post-P<0.05 era” and encourage stronger science and many -- but not all -- scientists approve. Read more...

By Josh Logue. A trend that started in high schools -- using the candidate's name to insult groups of students -- has spread to higher education. Experts expect the national political divisiveness to extend to campuses. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. There are no easy answers for California's two-year college system as it faces an unprecedented decision to move to a new accreditor, while also debating how to change the current one. Read more...