More than a year after he took office promising to put a welcoming new face on U.S. foreign policy, President Obama has left allies in higher education increasingly puzzled over one glaring omission.

Cuba.

Mr. Obama took several steps last year toward improving U.S. relations with Cuba, allowing relatives of Cubans to travel, communicate, and send money back to their home country. But he stopped short of ending a policy imposed by President George W. Bush in 2004 that...

College men participate in campus activities at disproportionately low rates, but deliberate efforts to recruit them can help, according to the findings of a two-year study of 14 institutions that was presented here on Tuesday at the annual conference of Naspa—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

"We didn't want to find out how to force men to volunteer. We wanted to find out how to get them to willingly volunteer," said Gar E. Kellom, who led the study and...

Nebraska's community colleges reached an agreement on Tuesday to resolve a long-simmering dispute over governance and the allocation of state funds, a state senator who helped mediate the dispute announced.

The dispute reached a high point of acrimony last year after one of the colleges was kicked out of the association that manages the institutions, and it in turn sued the other five.

The college that filed the lawsuit, Metropolitan Community College, in Omaha, contended that...