In its quest to find a sustainable business model, online course provider edX will test charging users for access to previously free content. Observers say the move was inevitable.

Promising open-access anthropology publication abandons its business model and faces criticism over allegations that top editor and others created toxic environment.

Internal reports, released by those suing the university, show use of personality rankings in ways that hurt Asian applicants' chances of admission. Under academic criteria only, their numbers would go way up.

The number of universities contracting with corporate entities to recruit for and manage first-year programs for international students keeps growing. As competition increases, institutions report mixed results with the model.

Key Education Department official says innovators in higher ed should not be held back by their accreditors.

In his new book, the digital education veteran Peter Smith calls for an end to “knowledge discrimination” at our colleges and universities.

Crisis-level student loan default rates among black borrowers and those who attended for-profits cannot be explained fully by students' backgrounds, study finds, including measures of income, employment and parental wealth.

Lecturer at University of Washington says he's standing up to political correctness. Many challenge his facts.

Bipartisan agreement to reauthorize Perkins Career and Technical Education law would give more authority to states to determine progress of federal skills training program.

Four liberal arts colleges teamed up to work together on MOOCs. Their paths diverged, but the experience was far from a waste of time and energy.