Dozens of California colleges and universities have signed onto a statement opposing what they called “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” into higher education.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order calling on the secretary of education to scrutinize and potentially terminate recognition for higher education accrediting bodies that ...

Had the Assembly endorsed it, the plan would have gone before the UC regents, who would have had the final say. Instead, the rejection ends a five-year effort by the UC ethnic studies faculty to ...