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Deficits, departments in receivership and proposed cuts leave humanities professors seething.

Open source group asks U.S. to revoke rights asserted by software giant. Sides trade charges on why compromise talks collapsed.

At loan industry meeting, president of upstart lender confronts head of financial aid officials' group on gifts policy at its conference.

Students support suspended student who posted Facebook invitation, deemed racially insensitive, to “Halloween in the Hood” party.

Petitions and planned protests object to an admissions change that might attract applicants and a higher U.S. News ranking.

With "unit records" database in doubt, Education Department explores huge expansion of core system for tracking colleges and students.

Participants in Education Dept. accreditation forum agree, to an extent, on need for common measures of learning.