After winning confirmation with the vice president's tie-breaking vote, new education secretary is expected to shift away from Obama policies on for-profit higher education, regulation and dealing with sexual assault on campus.

Days after Saint Joseph's College in Indiana announced it was temporarily shutting down, hundreds of students are left to find a new school.

Editors of academic journals should be investigated for “professional negligence” if peer review at their publications takes too long, says a leading critic of the scholarly publishing industry.

New head of Education Department becomes the first cabinet official confirmed with a tie-breaking vote from the vice president.

Gov. Terry Branstad last week signed into law a $117.8 million spending adjustment that, among other things, strips $18 million from Iowa’s three public universities yet this budget year — the one that’s already more than half over.

“Urgent” action is required to stop Indian academics fuelling a multimillion-dollar predatory publishing industry, a new study says.

At a time when some colleges have eliminated the discipline, a historically black college is restoring the major.

Fort Hays State University and Cowley County Community College announced Friday that they are teaming up to offer two kinds of bachelor's degrees that students can earn in four years or less at a total cost of less than $15,000.

Outcomes-based funding is a growing trend more states are using to fund higher education.

As many Northeastern colleges fear enrollment declines, Lehigh University charts ambitious growth plan including 1,000 additional undergraduates, 100 more faculty members and a new college of health.