By Scott Jaschik. Experts see move as one sign of increased interest by highly competitive colleges in transfers. Read more...

By Michael Stratford. A federal judge in Massachusetts this week issued a mixed ruling in a case challenging tougher regulations on for-profit colleges enacted by that state’s attorney general. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. After two years of healthy growth, colleges' endowment investment return rates fell in 2015. While they didn't come close to the declines of some years in the past decade, the average rate is the lowest reported since 2012. Read more...

By Ashley A. Smith. Federal Trade Commission alleges the for-profit university misled students about their employment and income prospects, and Education Department seeks to stop DeVry from making deceptive advertisements. Read more...

By Scott Jaschik. The National Science Foundation this week issued a statement calling on the colleges and universities that receive its grants to do a better job of preventing and dealing with harassment in science -- and the agency has warned that it would terminate funding to institutions that do not take required steps to prevent and deal with harassment. Read more...

By Jake New. State of Virginia has proposed a pilot program that would create a regional center for investigating cases of campus sexual violence. Read more...

By Ellen Wexler. A new report shows a slow but steady increase in higher education funding as states recover from the recession. Read more...

By Colleen Flaherty. Wheaton College in Illinois can try to fire the associate professor of political science it put on leave for saying that Christians and Muslims worship the “same God.” But the faculty won't back its decision. Read more...