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The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2013:

High school achievement tests are good predictors of performance for students at California's community colleges, but study also finds troubling achievement gaps.

U. of North Carolina student faces discipline for speaking about her rape allegation, after a campus panel dismissed her case and she became party to a federal complaint against UNC.

Two new online phenomena spreading to college and university campuses raise questions of how much information is too much -- and who has the right to share it.

New research explains why women are outpacing men in school, and what institutions can do about it.

The following colleges and universities have announced their commencement speakers for spring 2013:

Students petition Hillel to end its ban on co-sponsoring events with groups that advocate boycott of Israel.

British business schools want famous guest lecturers -- and some of them go off-script.

Images from New England colleges coping with the great blizzard of 2013.