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Novelist Quits Teaching Job Over Loyalty Oath
Arizona is surprised to find out it still requires professors to sign a statement that was common in McCarthy era. And a community college loses an adjunct who was its star professor.
CFPB Eyes Loan Servicer Rules
Armed with a new report outlining student loan servicing problems, the consumer bureau says it's exploring tougher new regulation of the industry.
Small Loans, Big Problem
Community college students who take out small federal loans are more likely to default, new report finds, and most defaulters earned fewer than 15 credits and never made a payment on their debt.
A Tougher Test for Colleges
Repayment rates may replace default rates as key measure of quality. That's bad news for many for-profit and historically black colleges, and some community colleges, too.
When Regulation Pays
Coding academies and boot camps are growing fast. State agencies started paying attention to short-term training programs last year, in a move that may have helped the industry.
Questions With an Agenda on Tenure?
U of Wisconsin professors want to know why they weren't informed of who was behind survey that showed up this week -- and that has now been taken offline.
Opinion
A Game Changer for Financial Aid
Allowing applicants for financial aid to use income information from two-year-old tax returns, instead of only the prior year's, is a big win for students, says W. Kent Barnds.
Opinion
Success of Nontraditional Students
The administration's new college Scorecard makes such students invisible, writes U of Phoenix president.