On what was once farmland on the edge of Cambridge, diggers are moving in to create a new academic quarter for the historic university city.

When Florida lawmakers made it harder to earn a Bright Futures scholarship, they celebrated the cost savings.

Despite concerns that California's new Middle Class Scholarship program awards would have to be reduced because of high demand, officials said Monday that there was plenty of money to fully fund all the eligible applicants.

The Barack Obama Foundation on Monday announced four locations as potential sites for President Obama's presidential library and museum.

A new coalition of 11 large public research universities plans to work together on techniques to improve their graduation rates, particularly for lower-income students.

After downing a double dose of NyQuil to fight a cold, the young woman woke in a man’s dormitory room with a vague memory of someone being on top of her, but no recollection of sexual contact.

Two Kent State University professors frustrated by the lack of analytical data on the evolution of their discipline have compiled all of the field’s doctoral dissertations into a database to track growth and changes in the field.

When it comes to controversies about curriculum, textbook content and academic standards, Texas is the state that keeps on giving.

Asian economies can draw on the demographic advantages of a youthful population in some countries, a growing middle-class, an expanding services sector and creative industries to leapfrog more advanced countries and take the lead in the “knowledge-based economy of the future”

The online-learning collaborative edX, a partnership between Harvard University and MIT, is expanding its reach beyond higher education and will begin offering courses geared toward high school students.