Chronicle of Higher Education

The legislation finances the federal government for the rest of a fiscal year already six months old.

The case is the second before the court involving affirmative action in higher education. The other challenges a race-conscious admissions policy in Texas.

Investigators have subpoenaed the records to help determine if a key former Education Department official, Robert Shireman, broke federal ethics laws.

The Obama administration lifted a ban on educational travel to Cuba two years ago but had not given licenses for study-abroad groups.

Smaller private colleges with many Pell Grant-eligible students want more help for those students and better measures of what the institutions are achieving.

Four business professors delivered lectures before a group of students who would determine which one deserved a sizable award.

The discounts that colleges give applicants for good grades are coming under criticism. But cutting such merit aid won't necessarily mean more money for need-based aid.

Critics say the confidentiality rule is the latest in a series of efforts to limit public access to government-sponsored research.

Notre Dame de Namur University, in California, saw significant advantages in acknowledging reality. The move has paid off.

Topics include the first-year college experiences of five "at risk" Mexican-American students and guidance for unemployed college graduates.

For a year, Robin D. Everall looked into mental-health needs at the University of Alberta. Now she's helping lead efforts to improve emotional health on the campus.

Fueling the debate are broader worries about the marginalization of the faculty and the slow pace of change amid shrinking public support.

Cass Sunstein, former regulatory czar, is teaching "Inside Government" at Harvard with Lawrence Summers, and has written a memoir of his time in the Obama administration.

Sequestration means an immediate 5-percent reduction in spending at an agency whose budget doubled from 1998 to 2003.

The median base salary for professional staff members on college campuses increased by 2 percent in 2012-13.

Steve Coll, departing president of the New America Foundation, will succeed Nicholas Lemann. Read about that and other job-related news.

David Levy's course at the University of Washington puts technology in its place—in the control of students.

Glimpses of life in academe from around the world.