Government

After briefings with congressional committees, federal agencies deliver more bad news on the status of the IRS data retrieval tool.

Liberal campus criticisms of the Trump administration and broader political environment are a dime a dozen. So a new denunciation of promised deportations and other rhetoric from faculty members at Christian and Catholic colleges stands out.

Each additional legislator who has attended public college in a state is worth about $3.5 million in state funding for higher ed, study says.

White House promises proposed cuts to college-prep programs will be guided by evidence. But past attempts to evaluate the programs have been beset by controversy.

Politics, geography and history all prevent the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education from following Georgia's consolidation path.

Republicans swept to power after years of complaints about the Obama administration's crackdown on for-profit colleges. But only tentative steps to roll back regulations have followed, and two major rules could be headed for a drawn-out negotiation process.

Indiana moves to focus on job training through nondegree programs.

Republican-dominated Washington wants more occupational job training as an alternative to college degrees. But higher education will remain the federal government’s primary job-training system, albeit one experts say could use a reboot.