“I tell our LGBTQ students, faculty, staff, and alumni this: You are not alone. Your university stands with you.” read more >

Colleges in the area try to reassure students. Press reports say two victims were students. Nationwide, attack on gay club prompts vigils, discussion and sadness. read more >

“This is about persuading institutions to do the right thing with respect to how they admit their students,” Secretary of Education John King said. “This effort is about removing arbitrary obstacles.” read more >

At many colleges, new assistant professors earn close to or even more than long timers. U of Washington is trying to do something about it -- and finding out how hard it is. read more >

The number of appointments made at counseling centers has grown at more than seven times the rate of institutional enrollment. read more >

"At the average institution, almost half of students who enroll and have to take out loans won’t earn a degree within six years." read more >

Colleges that accommodate transgender students by letting them choose preferred names and pronouns find their efforts hindered by out-of-date software and federal reporting requirements. read more >

Adjunct faculty members in two divisions of Saint Louis University have voted overwhelmingly to unionize, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on Monday. read more >

Pomona changes criteria for evaluating teaching to include whether professors are "attentive to diversity in the student body." read more >

"The price tag would be a welcome relief for many students. What’s less clear is whether the state would pick up all or some of the tab for the lost tuition revenue." read more >

It takes more than just a plan on paper read more >

More people are earning degrees from far-away schools through regional campuses. read more >

Education Department urges colleges to rethink whether they should ask applicants about criminal and disciplinary records -- and to be more nuanced when they do so. read more >

Ms. Warren told The Chronicle that proving actual racial discrimination in individual tenure cases is nearly impossible. But she agreed to join forces with the student activists and the Rutgers faculty union by framing the problem "more at the institutional level — a systemic racism." read more >

The values that undergird higher education as a guarantor of human dignity and enlightenment are under a special intensity of attack, argues Robert Weisbuch, while we in academe seem preoccupied with the little stuff. read more >

In order to graduate, students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will soon be required to take a class in an American minority culture, The News-Gazette reports. read more >

The chancellor of the University of California at Davis, Linda P.B. Katehi, was placed on administrative leave on Wednesday night, pending an investigation of information that “raises serious questions” about whether she may have violated university policies, according to a statement from the office of the president of the University of California system. read more >

Students working to force the resignation of UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi to resign face critics using the language of social justice to attack them. read more >

Jeff Selingo’s There Is Life After College places too much emphasis on vocational education and not enough on the virtues of the liberal arts. read more >

The financial struggle of public research institutions may be a matter of choice—not necessity, as public leaders say. read more >