The number of top-ranked colleges targeted in a new House inquiry over their response to antisemitism on their campuses. In a letter this week, the Republican chair of the powerful Ways and Means Committee questioned the tax-exempt status of the institutions — Harvard University, Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania — and argued that they had failed to “adequately protect Jewish students from discrimination and harassment.”

The year-over-year enrollment uptick this fall at the State University of New York — the first increase in over a decade. Boosting enrollment within the state’s colleges has been a priority for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who announced a series of higher education initiatives this week, including a proposal to mandate that high school seniors fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid.

The maximum amount public Kentucky colleges could be sued for each time they violated provisions in a state legislative proposal targeting campus diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. The bill would ban colleges from holding mandatory trainings that promote “divisive concepts,” such as the idea that a person of any particular race is inherently privileged.

The average number of minutes borrowers who called their student loan servicers in October waited to speak to a live representative, according to a new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. That month marked the resumption of payments on federal student loans after a more than three-year pause during the pandemic.

The number of new sports teams Adrian College has added since 2005. Although the Michigan institution has seen enrollment double since then, a recent Urban Institute analysis found that investing in Division III athletics doesn’t necessarily result in enrollment growth for colleges.