Anxiety was high Wednesday among about 70 full- and part-time faculty members at Westminster Choir College after they received emails Tuesday containing layoff notices from Rider University, which operates the 23-acre music campus in Princeton.

In a move celebrated by state workers on college campuses, University of Tennessee administrators announced Tuesday they will not be participating in a proposed facilities outsourcing plan pushed by Gov. Bill Haslam.

Republican tax reform plan would tax large endowments and limit or kill key deductions, including one for student loan interest and another for graduate students.

Few universities loom as large in the public’s imagination as “the Sorbonne” – known more prosaically as the University of Paris.

Strayer Education and Capella Education announced Monday that they are merging, in a $2 billion deal that will make the combined company one of the largest for-profit college operators in the country.

An international buyer intends to employ faculty and staff in the future, but Rider issued the layoff notices in case the deal falls through.

A senior academic standards assessor has hit out at England’s “one-size-fits-all” quality system, claiming that it forces staff at alternative providers to fabricate evidence for inspections.

Cheap devices, known as keyloggers, are being used by students to steal professors’ passwords on campus and to change grades.

The possibility that the Chinese University of Hong Kong will take over the defunct Daniel Webster College in Nashua and turn it into a branch of the Asian college could open up a new chapter in New Hampshire’s long history of higher education.

A music lecturer who has waged a decade-long war against his former vice-chancellor has been told that he is no longer an international fugitive.