Colleges adopted policies to stop the tenure clock to help professors who are new parents, especially mothers. Study suggests fathers may be the real beneficiaries.

For the first time in more than 20 years, some inmates in West Virginia will soon be able to use money from the federal Pell grant to earn a degree behind bars.

The number of European Union students enrolling in UK universities could decline significantly in the wake of Brexit, vice-chancellors fear.

Federal panel recommends termination for ACICS, an accreditor of several notorious for-profits, while also tightening the screws on the American Bar Association and other agencies.

After a more than a half-century, Grove City College was taken off the top of the American Association of University Professors’ censure list at its 102nd Annual Meeting on Saturday.

Now we know it. Brexit is a fact. It sadly shows what populism can do, not only in the UK.

Finding new ways to teach the digital generation, bringing down the cost of a college education and ensuring that more students graduate are among the biggest challenges facing institutions of higher learning today — and meeting those challenges has never been more crucial than it is now.

The University of Louisville is looking into whether Gov. Matt Bevin’s unilateral dismissal of all 17 appointed members of the U of L Board of Trustees creates problems for the school’s standing with its accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

The teaching excellence framework could radically reshape the hierarchy of UK higher education, with small campus universities and post-92s outperforming many of the elite Russell Group ...

After the State College of Florida replaced a tenure-like system with three-year contracts for all new faculty members, some complained.