The National Collegiate Athletic Association likes to boast that athletes graduate at rates higher than non-athletes – in some cases, significantly higher.

School board members in Springtown, Texas, have voted to change district policy to allow male teachers to administer corporal punishment to female students, but only with written permission from parents.

Washington state was once well above the national average for the percentage of high-school students who went to college. But today, by some measures, we are one of the lowest states in the country.

Each has answers. But basically it comes down to these: To serve the greater good. To win a public-relations race. And, most especially, to enhance reputations.

E. Gordon Gee makes millions as president of Ohio State University, but a Dayton Daily News investigation found the university spends almost as much for Gee to travel the globe, throw parties, wine and dine donors, woo prospective faculty, hang out with students and staff and maintain a 9,600-square-foot mansion on 1.3 acres

The Kremlin says the university will join the world's best in a decade, but skeptics say it will be hard to recruit to a place that is "unbearably freezing and windy."

The administration said it would continue to recognize as chairwoman a different professor than the Senate itself recognizes.

New College of the Humanities enrolls its first class of 60 students this fall, but it has already attained notoriety in seeming disproportion to its small size and tender age.

A high court judge has granted London Metropolitan University the right to take legal action against the government for revoking its right to recruit non-EU students—allowing thousands of displaced students to continue their studies in the process.

The elite college's rating was lowered to AA+, which means it still has a strong capacity to meet its financial obligations, according to Standard & Poor's.