University of California campuses were rocked by student protests and demonstrations in reaction to last Thursday’s vote by UC regents to approve a system-wide 32 percent tuition hike, CNN reported last week.

College students — both American and foreign — are studying abroad in record numbers, according to an exhaustive annual survey of international education.

A freshman at Princeton is suing the university for allegedly denying her appropriate accommodations for her learning disabilities, the Daily Princetonian reported last week.

College enrollment among the nation’s 18- to 24-year-olds has reached a record high of 39.6 percent, or 11.5 million young adults, enrolled in a two- or four-year college, according to a Pew Research Center report released last week.

Morehouse College implements a student dress code that bans cross-dressing and Brandeis stalls plans to auction its art collection in this week’s college news roundup.

A student at the University of California, Los Angeles was critically injured last Thursday after a fellow student stabbed her five times and slashed her neck in an organic chemistry lab between classes.

The Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted Monday to increase in-state tuition for its public colleges, raising tuition fees between eight and 10 percent.

Students at Tufts University may not have to worry about unwanted nighttime guests any more, thanks to a new stipulation in the school’s residential life office’s guest policy. That and other news in this week’s Higher Ed Roundup.

The investigation into the Sept. 8 strangling of Yale graduate student Annie Le has progressed quickly since late last week; plus other news from around the world of higher education.

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea was recently awarded a EUREKA grant — $1.3 million in funding for scientific research over four years — by the National Institutes of Health.