By Doug Lederman. Public and private colleges alike saw their median revenues outpace median expenses in the 2015 fiscal year, showing improved stability of higher education finances, Moody's Investors Service said in a pair of reports released Monday. Read more...
By Doug Lederman. The "special master" hired by the U.S. Education Department to oversee the initial process of deciding which student loan borrowers should get relief from their debt because of institutional fraud issued his fourth and final report Wednesday. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. The University of California, Berkeley, reported that three of its students were injured during Thursday's terrorist attack in Nice, and a fourth student remains unaccounted for.
Eighty-four people were killed, and 202 wounded, in Nice after a terrorist drove a truck through a crowd during a Bastille Day fireworks display. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. New final guidance issued Wednesday prohibits universities from issuing I-20 forms -- the legal document that international students need in order to apply for visas -- based on conditional admission. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. A survey by The Guardian found cases in which British academics are being asked to withdraw from international research teams or to step down from leadership roles due to doubts about their future eligibility for European Union funding. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. A government audit of Scotland’s universities found that Scottish undergraduates are finding it “more difficult” to get into universities, the BBC reported. The number of applications has grown more quickly than the number of funded places available for students from Scotland and other European Union countries, who are entitled to free tuition. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. The president of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, in Germany, announced plans to rewrite a 150 million euro (about $166 million) gift agreement that critics say gives a donor too much control over faculty appointments and publishing decisions at the university's Institute of Molecular Biology, Science reported. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. An economics scholar at the University of Cambridge attended a faculty meeting naked last week in protest of the British vote to leave the European Union, the Independent and the Telegraph reported. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. Following the Brexit vote, many anticipate a drop in the number of E.U. students at U.K. universities. Could American institutions attract some of them. Read more...
By Elizabeth Redden. Citizens of European Union countries who are currently enrolled in U.K. universities and those planning on entering in the fall will receive the loans and grants for which they are eligible for the duration of their courses of study, the Student Loans Company announced Monday. Read more...
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