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Veterans' organizations see negotiations over the Higher Education Act as an opportunity to tighten a federal exemption they say makes service members target of aggressive marketing by for-profit colleges.

Sociologist says journal dismissed her paper because she'd shared it elsewhere as a preprint -- even though the publication had a pro-preprint policy. How often does this happen?

Study finds that applications go up, yield goes down … and (maybe) SAT scores go up a bit for colleges in the program.

Applicant admitted for "special interest."

Repeated text message, email and mail reminders from a state's college system and the Common Application did not prompt more students to go to college or apply for FAFSA, a study finds.

Jim Jump asks, is it legitimate to take advantage of another's hardship?

Nothing in our job descriptions requires us to be the best ever with the most publications in the best journals with the most grant money, writes Michael Rocque, so we should stop comparing and ranking ourselves.