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accommodate transgender students by letting them choose preferred names and pronouns find their efforts hindered by out-of-date software and federal reporting requirements.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

“I’m seeing my friends do twice as much work for the same pay and I want to do something about that.” read more >

Pete Nickerson, the PSU trustee's chair, sent an email to all students Tuesday describing the meeting. "This will be an extended opportunity to share perspectives, insights or concerns about the University and to hear back from trustees," Nickerson wrote. read more >

“In 2014, Oregon, with a population of 3.9 million, had total state expenditures of $7.9 billion; it spent $347 million on higher education, less than half of the $885 million it spent on corrections.” 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 >

“Low-achieving, high-income students are able to go to college much easier than high-achieving, low-income students,” Scott said. “If our democracy is going to mean anything, we have to make opportunities available to everybody.” 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 >

"This agreement is a very important breakthrough for the university and the region," President Wim Wiewel said in his opening remarks. 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 >

"The foundation is devoting funds that could have gone directly to support students. That $375,000 amounts to 12 percent of the $3.2 million that the foundation handed out in scholarships for the entire 2014-2015 year. It's also more than a fifth of what the foundation gave in faculty and staff compensation for that same year." 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 >

New University of Oregon president prioritizes the hiring of tenure-track faculty and academics over athletics. 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 >

Summary of changes to the newly ratified contract. read more >

Students and community members gathered in Parkway North at the Smith Memorial Student Union to hear thoughts on race in higher education from a panel of five that included students and community activists. read more >