Citing COVID-19, Kansas's state governing board makes it much easier for institutions to suspend or terminate even tenured faculty members.

President Biden's proposal to make public colleges free could mean more students may be able to go to college, but it could also mean the end for some private institutions.

Common App shows overall application increase, but the gains are for larger and more competitive colleges. SUNY applications fall by 20 percent.

Springer is investigating allegations of “middle school” plagiarism against an editor of one of its journals. In a strange tale, the editor is accused of working with a pair of researchers who eventually pulled their paper from consideration -- and then publishing much of that paper later, naming himself and a retired judge from Arizona with no academic publication record as the sole co-author.

The rising cost of college has led to an increase in parents taking out student loans for their children. Should these loans be canceled?

The Democratic chairman of the House education committee joined the call Thursday opposing the appointment to the committee of a controversial freshman Republican congresswoman who has called the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre a hoax.

Senator Richard Burr, from North Carolina, expects to be named Lamar Alexander’s successor as the Senate’s top Republican on the education committee, a source familiar with the senator’s thinking

Federal judge upholds the popular optional practical training program in latest development in long-running lawsuit. The labor union that brought the lawsuit is appealing.

The Government Accountability Office has begun an analysis of the array of external providers -- more central than ever because of the pandemic -- that help colleges take their academic programs online.

The president's nominees for Education Department have records of advocating for student borrowers and close ties to progressive senators Warren and Sanders.