More than 20 years after the end of apartheid, the pressure for South Africa’s universities to shed their old identities and to embrace transformation is greater than ever.

Modern States Education Alliance, an organization initially billed as an accreditor for nontraditional providers of education, is changing its focus and taking a more direct route to increasing access to higher education, its founders say.

With various working definitions of genocide, debates about the term's application to historical events can get heated.

The largest historically black university in the U.S. wants to grow even larger, and the university's leaders believe online education can help them get there.

Central in the debate about divesting endowments from fossil fuels is not only climate change, but the question of whether such a move could hurt colleges financially.

Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP in Spokane, Wash., and adjunct instructor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, ...

Unlike at colleges and universities, where students finish their studies and leave with a diploma, most learners who complete one of Coursera’s massive open online courses report benefits that help them in less measurable ways.

Faculty members at the State College of Florida don’t have tenure ...

Like most colleges, the University of New Mexico is trying to help more of its at-risk students get to graduation.

Eighty leading colleges and universities on Monday announced a plan to reverse a decades-long process by which colleges have -- largely through the Common Application -- made their applications increasingly similar.