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A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges.
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A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges.
Administration rescinds guidelines that said Title IX applied to discrimination based on gender identity. Guidelines had been used by transgender students to push for policy changes.
Professors tell students "what to say, and more ominously, what to think," new education secretary says in her first sustained criticism of higher education.
Obama administration guidelines for LGBT student protections under Title IX remain in place, and the student codes at Liberty and Bob Jones Universities appear to violate them.
Education secretary's remarks astound many advocates for colleges that were created because black students were denied choices.
Black students graduate, on average, at a rate 22 percentage points lower than white students. Closing that gap will require individual institutions to improve completion rates and highly selective colleges to enroll more black students, a new report says.
Anthropology -- where the work of researchers is often at odds with the priorities of the Trump White House -- tries to figure out how to maneuver.
Cal State Fullerton faculty union says instructor was suspended for allegedly hitting a student at a pro-Trump rally -- despite a lack of evidence. Professor's allies say he was the one who was attacked.
Starting March 15, the university will begin removing more than 20,000 video and audio lectures from public view as a result of a Justice Department accessibility order.
Report documents 107 incidents at colleges and universities in the current academic year.