By Courtney Kueppers. All campuses of the for-profit Marinello Schools of Beauty chain will cease operations by Friday, following an announcement this week that the U.S. Department of Education was cutting off the institution’s access to federal student aid. More...

By Andy Thomason. Citing a “new normal” of diminished state funding, the University of California at Berkeley is launching a “strategic-planning process” aimed at shoring up its finances. More...

By Andy Thomason. The American Association of State Colleges and Universities will team up with 44 institutions to “reimagine the first year of college” with an eye to the success of students who come from low-income or minority backgrounds or who are the first in their family to attend college. More...

By Andy Thomason. Colleges’ endowments returned an average of 2.4 percent in the 2015 fiscal year, the lowest annual rate reported by the annual Nacubo-Commonfund Study of Endowments since 2012, when endowments reported a -0.3-percent return. More...

By Andy Thomason. The president of Oberlin College has rejected a group of black students’ demands aimed at dealing with racism on the Ohio campus, calling some of the demands “deeply troubling,” according to a message posted Wednesday on the college’s website. More...

By Andy Thomason. The U.S. Department of Education will publish a list of religious colleges that have received exemptions from some provisions of the gender-equity law Title IX, the assistant secretary for civil rights, Catherine E. Lhamon, said in a letter on Wednesday. More...