When an Arizona State professor accused the university of an unethical partnership with Cengage, the university denied it received grants from the company.

FBI director addresses efforts by China to steal academic research and technology. Higher ed groups say they're taking the issue seriously.

Editors discuss new volume of essays on the ways higher education is changing because of issues of race, gender and sexuality -- and how they think higher ed needs to change even more.

Study examines what colleges say they want students to learn and how they are measuring that learning.

New study of computer scientists says that when it comes to research output, where Ph.D.s get hired matters more than where they trained.

A project that aims to slash the cost of producing monographs could help make more of them available to the public for free. But will scholars participate?

Legislature repeals ban imposed by voters, but opponents of consideration of race in admissions are already mobilizing for a new vote.

After failing to live up to the expectations it (self-)generated, the adaptive learning company Knewton goes out not with a bang but with a whimper.

Johns Hopkins students are refusing to leave administration building until officials cancel plans to form an armed police force. Activists are worried about the potential for racial profiling.

Bills targeting for-profit institutions in California would prohibit tuition-sharing deals -- a sign of growing political scrutiny of the role of online program management companies.