Faculty members earn 15 percent less than others with advanced degrees, study finds. They work equally long hours.

If higher education continues on a path of exploding costs and declining student enrollment, some South Carolina public colleges and universities will be forced to close shop, officials from the state Commission on Higher Education warned.

Students, faculty, staff and visitors are a step closer to being able to carry some kinds of weapons on the campuses of public colleges and universities in Arizona.

Publisher Taylor & Francis has dropped plans to charge extra for access to older research papers online, after more than 110 universities signed a letter of protest.

There are British universities that own castles, grottoes and even a sewage plant. But Rama Thirunamachandran, at Canterbury Christ Church University, is proud to be the only vice-chancellor who has purchased a prison.

Donation from NRA president helped prompt college to change gift policy, raising questions: If you take someone's money, are you endorsing them? What if he boasts of getting professors "giddy" about shooting guns?

Scholarly society for engineers and technologists is on blast once again for allegedly minimizing the work of female historians who write about bias against women in technology.

Amid heightened concern about Russian election meddling, the FBI on Tuesday warned U.S. universities about Chinese intelligence operatives active on their campuses, adding that many academics display “a level of naiveté” about the level of infiltration.

When Laurie Santos designed a new university course that would aim to show students how to be happy, she thought that it might generate some interest.

When Morley Winograd launched the Campaign for Free College Tuition in 2014, he says people told him that free college was a "crazy idea."