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Plan before Board of Regents today is projected to significantly cut Asian admissions. Who would gain the most? Not black and Latino applicants.

Weeks after abandoning traditional academic program to focus on adults, Crichton becomes latest small nonprofit institution to shift to for-profit model.

While a larger share of students are earning high scores, minority groups lag. Some states see progress on closing gap for Latinos, little movement is seen for blacks.

JuicyCampus, the controversial Web site that encouraged college students to gossip about one another, closes down after revenues evaporate.

To bury the debates about whether to measure student learning, higher education -- and the new education secretary -- should do the hard work of figuring out the higher skills that students should have, writes Merilee Griffin.

Leaders in Tennessee and Maine have taken differing approaches to transforming university systems, highlighting the importance of building alliances early in the process.