Chronicle of Higher Education

Gene Powell, a University of Texas regent, says critics who see him as a politically driven micromanager are misunderstanding his motives.

As big names crowd into smaller classrooms via MOOCs, professors begin to wonder if their own teaching is at risk.

Each graduating class adds to the tradition, in whatever medium it chooses.

Educational attainment has increased, but there are gaps by gender and by race, according to an annual report from the Education Department.

At least two colleges plan to create a "lecturer" classification for non-tenure-track instructors who teach 75 percent of a full-time professor's course load.

Students accused Dartmouth and Swarthmore Colleges and the Universities of California at Berkeley and of Southern California of violating federal laws.

In a mostly party-line vote, the chamber approved a Republican-backed measure that would prevent some interest rates from doubling on July 1.

The Century Foundation calls for radical change to avoid "the increasing economic and racial isolation of students" at community colleges.

At a hearing, students' and veterans' groups argued for shoring up the rule. For-profit colleges argued for dropping it, or waiting for Congress to act.

The department won't disclose its plans for efforts to regulate career-oriented programs.

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved extending federal student loans, work-study funds, and other support to students who are in the United States illegally.

Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge may not have discriminated against a female job candidate, the court said, but the evidence warrants a trial, not dismissal of the case.

The release falsely depicts a Stanford student and two scholars at other universities as leaders of a campaign to boycott Arab nations. Its origin is unknown.

Glitches in the department's debt-management system forced it to rely on estimates of what the collection agencies should be paid.

Reports from the Council for Aid to Education provide evidence that students are in fact learning, in contrast to the findings of a blockbuster 2011 book.

The U.S. Department of Education extended until 2014 the deadline for compliance with rules requiring colleges to be properly authorized by state governments.

Thomas R. Kepple Jr. will preside over the American Academic Leadership Institute, one of a handful of organizations that prepare aspiring presidents.

Students at the U. of Oregon, acting as consultants, test ways to help nearby cities. The idea is spreading.