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Crowding Out For-Profit Colleges

Study finds taxpayer-supported bond initiatives shift students from area proprietary institutions to community colleges, boosting enrollment at these already crowded public institutions.

German Author Wins Nobel in Literature

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this morning to Herta Müller, a German writer of novels, short stories...

Campuses Continue to See New H1N1 Cases

Ninety-two percent of the 273 colleges and universities in a sample being tracked by the American College Health Association reported...

Senator Wants to End NSF Funds for Political Science

Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, is proposing that Congress bar the National Science Foundation from supporting research in political...

Study Explores Gap in Latino College Attainment

While 89 percent of Latino young adults (ages 16 to 25) say that a college education is important for success...

U.S. Decline or a Flawed Measure?

New version of British rankings of universities worldwide suggests that American dominance is eroding, but is the methodology meaningful? Is Berkeley really No. 39?

Reviving Local News

Berkeley's j-school joins a new project that aims to save the industry -- but, to the dismay of some journalists, depends on students' unpaid labor.