Alabama State University Board of Trustees placed university president Gwen Boyd on administrative leave during a meeting Friday.

Instructor says he was fired -- shortly after he complained to accreditor -- for refusing to water down his curriculum and requirements. Another instructor quit rather than comply.

A UK university has been criticised for cancelling a guest lecture after a British academic refused to produce his passport

Virginia’s public colleges and universities will share the pain of closing a $654 million budget shortfall in the next fiscal year.

Investors fret that the Education Department's lengthy scrutiny of the U of Phoenix's proposed sale means the deal might be nixed. Politics and optics might be reasons for the delay.

Informal system of warning colleagues about senior scholars who engage in inappropriate behavior doesn’t really protect anyone, study finds.

Heritage College, a for-profit school with 10 locations across the country including in Denver, abruptly closed its doors Tuesday.

Makerere University, one of Africa’s oldest and most prestigious universities, has been closed by Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni.

From Donald Trump to Brexit, John Morgan considers the challenges of a new international political climate ahead of next week’s presidential election

As meritocratic approach to education finds favour in UK, academic argues its dystopian original meaning has come to pass in China