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Leaving the System
More students are leaving higher education after their first year, according to new national numbers that are bad news for the college completion push.
An Arms Race
Big-time college sports programs are competing to offer more to their athletes. Are they creating more gender inequity at the same time?
Battle for Texas
President of UT Austin told to quit or be fired -- and he resists. Faculty leaders say regents -- allies of Governor Rick Perry -- are attempting "coup" against respected academic leader.
Opinion
Block the July 4 Coup
The 2013, 2014 and 2015 chairs of UT Austin's Faculty Council argue that the effort to remove the president there is shortsighted, and that academics nationwide must take note.
Know a Problem to Fix It
States have chaotic lack of consistency in how they track college remediation, according to the Education Commission of the States, which seeks national standards.
For Storied Institution, a Historic Low
After more than a decade of decline and alleged financial mismanagement, the country's oldest private historically black university risks losing its accreditation, which could be fatal.
Controlled Crash?
Corinthian Colleges and the feds have a day to decide how to dismantle the huge for-profit, with the fate of students, employees and $1.2 billion in loans hanging in the balance.
Corinthian's Cloudy Future
Corinthian Colleges Inc. teeters on the brink as the Education Department delays payments, raising worries about what will happen to the for-profit's 72,000 students.