Faculty members at various institutions debate the pros and cons of shielding freshmen from themselves (or least their performance) in the form of "covered" or "shadow" grades on transcripts.

Surveys show an increasing number of U.S. institutions are working with commissioned agents to recruit international students.

Education Department will push to finalize rule on state approval of online programs before the end of the year.

Louisiana and other states are closer to reaching college completion goals as their emphasis shifts to more certificates in addition to degrees.

New book explores how academic libraries can shape their services to better serve higher education -- and what librarians should do to make it happen.

Faculty members and students worry they're paying the price for construction projects amid a focus on cutting administrative costs.

During the time attendees have been gathered for the biennial Scholars at Risk congress, news broke that a professor from Montreal’s Concordia University has been imprisoned in Iran.

When a federal panel weighs whether to keep recognizing an overseer of for-profit colleges this month, the feds and the accreditor alike will be judged on the outcome.

Universities that set up shop globally should work to uphold principles such as academic freedom, gender equity and freedom of speech ...

Education Department staff proposes termination for ACICS, threatening access to federal aid for the 243 institutions -- many of them for-profit -- the national accreditor oversees