Rick Seltzer

The Internal Revenue Service is warning about a tax refund scam from IRS impersonators who are targeting those who work at colleges and universities, as well as their students. People with email addresses ending in .edu have been reporting email phishing attempts in recent weeks. The attempts appear…

A new set of fundraising reporting standards aims to help colleges and universities compare their performance across borders. It also prioritizes ethical considerations at a time when donor and institutional conduct are under the microscope.

A new estimate quotes large losses, but defenders of the system say it’s functioning as designed. Will the number matter in the larger debate over debt forgiveness and federal lending policy?

Nature sets article processing charge at the equivalent of $11,250 for researchers selecting open-access publishing.

The Women’s KKK, an affiliated-but-separate racist organization for white Protestant women, courted members through an insincere “empowerment feminism.”

County-level data reveal a varying picture that sometimes challenges the idea of colleges as COVID-19 hot spots -- but often reinforces it.

The path of university closings is beginning to accelerate as schools struggle to deliver a value proposition to students.

Small college presidents often feel their programs aren’t valued by the labor market, but they heard otherwise from a major employer Monday.

Colleges ranking highly after 10 years aren’t necessarily the same ones at the top after 40 years, report says. The middle tier is a perhaps surprising mix of public, nonprofit and for-profit institutions.

Sigma Phi Epsilon leaves a fraternity trade association, saying the organization needs to do more for student safety.

One report says funding cuts by states to public colleges are a problem; another says they’re a myth.

Who benefits from the admissions practice and what should be done about its implications for equity?

The University of Missouri has new administrators, new policies and, leaders say, a new attitude after concerns over the racial climate in Columbia exploded in 2015. But challenges loom, and some are far from convinced enough has changed.

Land-grant university’s seven-year tuition freeze under former Republican governor means out-of-state recruitment drive

College sport is deeply woven into US culture and commerce. But a long series of scandals has pointed the glare of publicity away from the basketball courts and football fields towards the athletics programmes themselves. Jon Marcus reports

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed.

Purdue University’s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fernández-Armesto

This article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed.

Should the government provide additional subsidies on top of existing subsidies to save marginal institutions? To be blunt about it, should it reward failure? I think the answer should be no. We need some creative destruction in higher education, we need to correct for massive public overinvestment…

North Carolina legislation would have cut tuition dramatically, and many at the institutions feared they would lose revenue. Two universities still are covered by bill.