University of Maryland President Wallace D. Loh wants to change the name of the College Park campus' Byrd Stadium, which honors a longtime campus president who opposed integration

A Scottish university is “considering the position” of the honorary degree it bestowed on American presidential candidate Donald Trump, after the businessman called for Muslims to be barred from entering the US.

Greenpeace investigation alleges that academic supporters of fossil fuels are willing to pen industry-friendly research for a fee.

Philadelphia prosecutors have announced a pilot program that gives people charged with nonviolent felonies a chance to attend college classes as an alternative to going to trial.

After years of allegations of deceptive marketing practices, for-profit Westwood College is no longer accepting new students after another multimillion-dollar settlement with a state attorney general.

In a bid to eliminate confusing academic social networks and name mix-ups, the Royal Society has announced today that authors submitting to its journals will have to provide a scientific passport.

On the presidential campaign trail, Marco Rubio likes to poke fun at a higher education system that he says churns out droves of liberal arts majors saddled with student loan debt and dim job prospects.

At a time when most college campuses prohibit guns, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. thinks the opposite should be the case -- urging his school's students to be armed ...

Private, for-profit universities are the only way to meet the huge demand for “good, not great” higher education in emerging economies, it has been argued.

Japanese and American professors clash over a textbook's depiction of the Japanese government's involvement in a system of sexual slavery during World War II.