Chronicle of Higher Ed reports on how 3 professors use trigger warnings read more >

The ruling overturns one from 2004 that said graduate students who served as teaching or research assistants were still students, and not subject to union rights for which workers are entitled. read more >

Unfortunately, the news media and other observers often overlook the fact that student debt is a problem with a color and class element, writes Mark Huelsman. read more >

"There are more school security officers than counselors in four of the 10 biggest school districts in the country. And whereas spending on corrections increased by 324 percent between 1979 and 2013, that on education rose just 107 percent during the same time." read more >

Bernie Sanders’s idea has made its way into Hillary Clinton’s education plan, but private schools are pushing back. read more >

"Colleges and universities are like businesses that can be improved by hiring administrators who adopt business practices and act like CEOs." read more >

“This story is everywhere. Worse than pepper spray. It will fade away, but not for a while. And based on our track record, it's a sure thing we will do more stupid stuff as we try to put it behind us.” read more >

"Free tuition" is a simple promise that some researchers, like Sara Goldrick-Rab now at Temple University, believe would motivate more working class students to dream of college and actually make it through. read more >

Even as long-neglected maintenance threatens to further escalate the price of higher education, universities continue to borrow and spend record amounts on new buildings. read more >

“We took the strike-authorization vote. When are we going to fight, if not now?” read more >

“Students’ backgrounds tended to shape what they got out of the course. For minority students, the dialogue did little to reframe their thinking. It did, though, give them an opportunity to trade perspectives and bond with other students, in a room where others looked like them. But for many white students, hearing about their classmates’ experiences upended their assumptions.” read more >

“College leaders could and should be doing far more to promote the use of free, openly licensed materials, to prevent publishers from treating students ‘like walking cash registers.’” read more >

Universities are discovering that keeping low-income students in school takes more than financial aid. read more >

“It's very important that whatever we do will be a deep understanding of what as a college we need and what we stand for in the long run.” read more >

U.S. Education Secretary John King will argue that interactions with children from different backgrounds prepare students for the workforce. read more >

“It is more effective to sanction or censure the campus administration because they are the ones who have more of a long-term interest in trying to get off the list.” read more >

Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s decision in Fisher v. University of Texas significantly undermines the very goals the court hopes to achieve, argues George A. Nation III. read more >

"Many observers expected a 4-to-3 decision striking down the Texas policy, with Justice Anthony M. Kennedy serving as the swing vote. Instead, he wrote the majority opinion in the case." read more >

Most departing faculty members leave quietly, but some make their dissatisfaction public. read more >

"The attacks are not going to stop," Howard J. Bunsis, chairman of the AAUP’s Collective Bargaining Congress read more >