Scientific societies offer an underappreciated avenue for female academics to burst through the glass ceiling, a study suggests.

Savannah State professors object to a new, unwritten policy judging their teaching effectiveness by how many D or F grades they give.

Ashford University is one of more than a dozen for-profit colleges across the country looking to become nonprofit institutions, a change that would make them subject to less federal oversight and shed the often-maligned “for-profit” designation.

Technology-based education start-up Woz U, announced today a partnership with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), one of only 32 polytechnic universities in the United States.

An Asian university’s decision to hand control of curriculum design to major employers has sparked debate about how higher education institutions can ensure that their students graduate with the skills needed by industry.

New findings tweak "traditional" label for presidents, asking whether U.S. public colleges and universities these days are being led by more nonacademics than we think.

There are only a handful of astronauts, but every year thousands of high school and college students get to visit space vicariously, by launching their own satellites.

Some of Europe’s biggest research universities have warned that the current commercial academic publishing system may not be able to deliver fully open-access research, and that institutions themselves may have to set up rival platforms instead.

And scholarship offers are also a sure thing, this high school says, at "top 100" colleges.

An Australian university is to extend its Swedish-inspired “block teaching” model after it was credited with boosting student achievement.