A legal advocacy group for students is suing the University of Southern California and 2U Inc., alleging that the school and the company that runs its online graduate programs in education defrauded students by using misleading U.S. News & World Report rankings to promote the courses.   Read more

Southern Utah University (SUU) recently removed bias incidents from its reporting system after receiving a demand letter from the Southeastern Legal Foundation (SLF). Read more

US college-level biology textbooks miss the mark on offering solutions to the climate crisis, according to a new analysis of books over the last 50 years. Read more

College students at America’s largest 203 colleges continue to censor themselves inside and outside of the classroom, a national survey of 45,000 students concluded. Read more

Students demonstrate interest in taking initiative on environmental issues and expect their colleges will do the same—but could use more knowledge on what matters most. Read more

The American space agency's Mars rover Perseverance will this week begin dropping samples of rock on to the surface of the Red Planet. Read more

President Joe Biden’s plan for mass student loan debt relief may be a bust, but the attempt to wipe billions in education-related debt was an acknowledgment: The way the U.S. pays for higher education is not working. Read more

Students at The New School, a private university in Manhattan, recently issued a demand letter as a strike over adjunct pay comes to a close. Read more

There is an ongoing struggle between genetics researchers and the National Institutes of Health over restrictions placed on access to federally maintained genetic databases. Read more

In handling widespread and complicated problems for academia, especially after Covid, Ivy League institution moves from denial to attempts at finding compromise Read more