Foundations

More students are leaving higher education after their first year, according to new national numbers that are bad news for the college completion push.

Education Department and for-profit college company agree to a phasing out plan, with 85 U.S. campuses on the block and a dozen to close.

Private giving to colleges and universities is back at pre-recession levels -- but with fewer people donating larger sums.

Too many unprepared students are enrolling in community college, argues a new book, which takes on both open-access admissions policies and the "completion agenda."

Experiments with adaptive learning spread, particularly at large for-profits, as technology takes a wide range of sometimes overlapping forms.

Sen. Harkin joins consumer groups in call for stronger gainful employment rules, and the retiring senator points to other Democrats who will continue the fight.

National enrollment slide slows, but community colleges and for-profits continue to lose students, with differences among age groups.

Two groups want to create new bodies that would review the academic quality of individual online courses or non-college providers.

Lipscomb University shows what competency-based education can look like in its blended form, both in-person and at a liberal arts college.

Incoming students in competency-based programs at Lipscomb University spend a long day trying to prove their baseline skills and behavior, with 30 college credits on the line.