It’s been a tough year for the University of Phoenix. But don’t count out the big dog of for-profits just yet.

Is higher education a giant bubble? I'd argue that it's probably not. But for-profit higher education just might be, and today we could be witnessing it pop.

A jury declared Wednesday that a conservative scholar who was passed over for a teaching job at the University of Iowa law school was not the victim of political discrimination.

A "greater degree of self-awareness" about the quality of British doctoral and master's degrees is needed if the country is to maintain its "world-leading" status, the British Higher Education Commission has warned.

For many schools, mixing online courses with face-to-face learning is primarily a method for serving struggling or advanced students while keeping them inside school walls.

Academics, on average, lean to the left. A survey being released today suggests that they are moving even more in that direction.

Comments on a 2012 higher ed marketing benchmarking report for not-for-profit schools contrasted to an earlier report on for-profit schools

Princeton and Stanford can rest easy now that Minnesota higher-education officials have backed away from threats to track down dozens of universities like them for offering free online courses in their state without permission.

A research center suggests ways to strengthen "College 101" courses to help improve college-completion rates.

The latest model-busting higher education program comes from a novel partnership between a nonprofit college and a nonprofit organization, helped by a push (and some money) from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.