My mother’s side of the family never immigrated to North America — they’ve always been here.

It wouldn’t be “free college” for all — no one anywhere is proposing that — but a state university diploma could become more affordable for many California students.

U.S. officials are subjecting Chinese academic institutions to greater scrutiny over fears they are exploiting ties to U.S. businesses and universities to promote China’s economic and military goals.

It wasn’t just the fact that one of China’s best universities had changed its charter last December to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party that raised eyebrows. Shanghai’s Fudan University also deleted principles like freedom of thought, and did so publicly, as if expecting praise.

Students who live in the northeast part of South Carolina may have a new, more affordable option to attend college.

College athletes in Tennessee could start getting paid by sponsors under a set of bills being introduced by a bipartisan pair of lawmakers from Memphis.

The squeals of elementary students at recess and the occasional hiss of a tractor-trailer’s tires on the main drag serve as the only soundtrack as a quartet of high school students head for some fun away from school.

A novel, potentially lethal virus in China. Bush fires in Australia. Political protests in Hong Kong.

The city’s lean toward new technology and the push from its universities have helped open the door for opportunities around competitive gaming

When Patricia Walters started building her art collection in the mid-1980s, she nabbed whatever caught her attention — from a verdant watercolor landscape by Lois Mailou Jones to the Harlem Renaissance-era work of Jacob Lawrence.