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New book offers a harsh critique of the rankings industry and its impact on undergraduate colleges and law schools.

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

Even as men still occupy more of the top roles in higher education, the Community College of Denver breaks from the norm with an all-female executive leadership team.

A petition and a letter asking state officials to investigate claims of critical race theory at Virginia Military Institute are the latest salvos in an ongoing conflict between leadership and alumni.

After three days of complaints about its previous policy of not paying an adjunct, the university reverses course.

The University of Florida has dropped Karl Marx’s name from a library study room in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Orlando Weekly reported. The Karl Marx Group Study Room was the largest of multiple spaces in UF’s Library West named for historical figures, Campus Reform, a conservative news site, noted earlier this month. Other rooms are named for Jane Austen,

Citing concerns for student mental health, the university is reducing the maximum number of credits engineers can take from 23 to 20 per semester.

Highlights from Forbes, Time, the Washington Post and others.

Students shouted down speakers at Yale and UC Hastings earlier this month, prompting questions about free speech, academic freedom and the employability of those who disrupted the events.

What do professors need most right now? Less training, more listening.