The University of Colorado is outsourcing its $825-million endowment to the boutique Wall Street firm that the university's former endowment chief joined this month, tripling the size of the firm's endowment-management program, The Wall Street Journal reports. Money-management experts say the move is unusual because Colorado's foundation didn't seek competing bids; the foundation said it didn't consider other firms because of its comfort level with the former manager.

A new analysis of student loans from the publisher of the student-aid Web site FinAid.org uses recalculated data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study to account for a methodology change made in 2007-8.

Lawyers for Tulane University and for alumnae of its former undergraduate division for women, Newcomb College, met in court today and urged a state judge to decide the outcome of a lawsuit seeking to re-establish the college. The judge said she would rule within 30 days.

Budget woes and a record number of applications have forced the state to turn away college students who applied after May 15, and there may not be enough money for next semester, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.

Yale University will get to defend itself against Peru, which seeks the return of thousands of Inca artifacts from the university, on potentially more friendly terrain. A federal district judge in Washington ruled today that he lacked jurisdiction over the case and would transfer it to a federal district court in Connecticut, the Associated Press reported.

The financially ailing College of Santa Fe will remain open, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports, thanks to a decision on Wednesday by the City Council there to incur up to $30-million in debt to buy the campus and lease it to Laureate Education Inc. The move follows several unsuccessful efforts to keep the college from closing. As it did under a similar arrangement with Kendall College in Chicago -- its first domestic campus -- Laureate said it might eventually buy the campus.

A literary feud is playing out on the Renegade South blog between the authors of a new book about a Mississippi county that seceded from the Confederacy -- John Stauffer of Harvard and Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post -- and the author of a 2000 book on the same subject, Victoria Bynum of Texas State University at San Marcos. According to a New York Times article about the dispute, Ms. Bynum's publisher, the University of North Carolina Press, sold the book's film rights to Universal Pictures, and a filmmaker's screenplay served as the inspiration for the new book, which the Times described as "somewhat sexier" than the original.

The head of Canada's main faculty association says Carleton University, in Ottawa, "cravenly caved to external pressure" when it relieved Hassan Diab of a summer teaching job. Mr. Diab is a suspect in a fatal bombing at a Paris synagogue in 1980.

States with fragmented public higher-education systems should "consolidate their resources into fewer, larger universities," argues a working paper by Cory Koedel, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Columbia. The paper says that, several years after graduation, people who attended college in states with a small number of large flagships earned higher wages than people who attended college in states with many small public four-year colleges.

States vary widely in how they carry out and evaluate technical-education programs financed by the federal government's Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, preventing the government from gaining a broad perspective on which programs work and which do not, says a report released today by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.