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.

The number and complexity of students' demands of administrations is going up -- and some of the items deal with issues typically left to faculty governance.

A trio of Senate Democrats on Monday sharply rebuked outgoing Education Secretary Arne Duncan for comments in which he downplayed alleged wrongdoing committed by Education Management Corp.