Following a school shooting in Florida that killed 17 people, including that of a Chinese-American student who held a door to let his classmates escape, we learned that the FBI received a tip about the shooter last month but failed to act.

Taking part in brief mindfulness exercises can help university students stay focused during lectures, researchers have claimed.

Right after U of Tennessee faculty members agreed on plan to toughen oversight of tenured professors, system proposed rules many say endanger academic freedom.

In an attempt to stay affordable and competitive, two small liberal arts colleges in Newton are considering merging, the schools announced Saturday.

Sharing resources among campuses makes sense for more than economical reasons, as colleges are finding these opportunities can better serve busy students.

Across our history, America has educated our citizens and future leaders far more effectively than other countries.

Colleges bombard bright high school students with pitches. Will an unexpected bit of humor motivate them to look more seriously at an institution?

A global shift towards open-access publishing is opening up new types of inequality within academia, according to research that highlights institutional “stratification” in publishing access outcomes.

Thursday will be a pivotal day for Purdue and its pending – not to mention controversial – deal to buy for-profit Kaplan University.

A new study identifies the gaps between graduates' views of their skills and the views of those who hire them.