With online attacks on the rise, institutions like CSU San Bernardino are preparing students to stop hackers. Read more

Borrowers will resume payments on federal student loans on Feb. 1, nearly two years after repayments were deferred due to the pandemic. The vast majority of borrowers say they won’t be ready to pay. Read more

Major science organisation targets periodicals publishing too many papers or high proportion of brief articles Read more

Disappointingly low student completion rates in the California Community Colleges system are prompting campus leaders to focus on retention efforts as they also try to stem enrollment declines Read more

A student activist group at the College of Wooster wants affirmative action in the writing and casting of plays in the university’s theatre department. Read more

At Swarthmore College, students and faculty have been working with local anti-violence groups to create an interactive database that tracks homicides in Delaware County. It’s a project that began in 2013, but the dashboard launched a few weeks ago. Read more

It is in Vienna, for good now, building a new campus and attracting diverse students. Read more

An English professor at Lewis & Clark College recently penned a two-page apology letter for offending his students with discussions of use of blackface in film and showing a 1964 clip of Laurence Olivier in blackface as “Othello.” Read more

What happened: The graphic was shown during a presentation by Daryll Pines, the university’s president, for the university senate “State of the Campus” report on Nov. 10, according to Fox News. Read more

Old Dominion University removed a controversial scholar from campus, in part for safety reasons. Some say the scholar is really being punished for bringing taboo topics out into the open. Read more