The University of Alabama and the city of Tuscaloosa are implementing a new technology that notifies police in the campus area within seconds if gunfire is heard nearby.

Amid political pressures to raise federal minimum wages and create more US-based jobs, multinational companies like McDonald’s have stepped up to the plate to address an issue that impacts communities everywhere: low high school graduation rates.

The campus of Nazarene Bible College in Colorado Springs is up for sale, but the 50-year-old professional school of ministry isn't going away.

Supporters say it would be a way to invest in public education and have tax-exempt higher education institutions work to counteract growing inequality, but opponents of legislation to tax some private university endowments claim it is unconstitutional and would harm Massachusetts' image as a bastion of higher education.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the charity created by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to give away their billions, is about to cut loose with an undisclosed amount of cash to get millions more students into college.

The votes have been tallied and the measure to create a taxing district for the creation of the College of Eastern Idaho has passed with 71 percent of the vote.

Cal State Chico fraternity has been charged with cutting and damaging 32 trees in the Lassen National Forest during an initiation ceremony for new pledges, federal authorities said.

Monash University's reputation in the lucrative Chinese student market has taken a battering after an online exam for business students claimed it was widely said Chinese government officials only tell the truth when they are drunk.

Last September, the NCAA started circulating a “presidential pledge” intended to deal with a problem that continues to rankle college sports: Diversity in hiring.

An offer of free tuition for some New York students has officials from area colleges wondering how much it will cost Northeast Pennsylvania.