Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced proudly in August that 100,000 people had applied for her state’s free college program, Michigan Reconnect. But there’s a hitch. Most statewide programs, including Michigan’s, don’t necessarily help the lowest-income students finish or pay for college. Read more

Washington, D.C. residents, including students, can soon read a book by Tara Reade, who has accused the president of sexually assaulting her. Read more

Amazon's core e-commerce business may be struggling - but the profit-making parts of its business are delivering. Read more

The two institutions debuted Axim Collaborative, a new nonprofit focused on broadening college access. The new venture offers a bold vision with scant details. Read more

673 professors at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) have signed an open letter saying that two education bills in the state legislature “violate the principles of academic freedom and shared governance.” Read more

The number of attempts to sanction scholars for Constitutionally protected speech shot up over the past several years, according to a report recently released by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. Read more

Farah Karim-Cooper – one of the UK’s few ethnic minority Shakespeare professors – reflects on being an outsider in a discipline not known for its non-white faces and ponders how diversity can be improved Read more

Dozens of state leaders representing Connecticut State Colleges and Universities (CSCU) packed the Legislative Office Building on Monday to air their dissent of an approved budget that would lead to more than 650 full-time faculty and staff layoffs, axe 3,000 part-time positions and raise the possibility of potential college closures. Read more

Spain recorded its hottest ever temperature for April on Thursday, hitting 38.7C according to the country's meteorological service. Read more

Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring. Read more