Taiwan hopes that attracting students from further afield, particularly mainland China, will help to address its higher education crisis.

Even as GAO and others say department needs to do more to monitor institutions for financial risks, department doesn't plan changes.

California's community college system wants to boost the number of low-income students taking advantage of the state's free tuition option.

For many students, alcohol is unofficially part of the college experience.

Education Department’s inspector general labels Western Governors as a correspondence-course provider, seeks reimbursement of $713 million in aid and may broadly threaten competency-based education.

University rankings must take fuller account of institutions’ engagement with communities, industry and public policy, sector leaders have urged.

Ball State Faculty Council debates how to assess commitment to diversity when using teaching evaluations, and how to phrase the question.

The University of Montana rescinded its attempt to cut short yearlong contracts with more than 30 lecturers Thursday, after the faculty union brokered an agreement.

Weeks after Harvard University voided the admission of incoming students who participated in a racist Facebook group, the California college grapples with a similar group involving hundreds of current students.

Scholars and students around the world face a “continuing global crisis of attacks” driven by an “anti-democratic fear of universities” as bastions of free thought, according to an international network that promotes academic freedom.