In 1868, the fledgling Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Boylston Street awarded its first diplomas to 14 graduates. Since then, it has issued paper credentials to more than 207,000 undergraduate and graduate students in much the same way.

US university leaders and individual researchers must “lean in” to their responsibilities as public advocates for evidence-based policymaking under the presidency of Donald Trump, according to a former White House staffer.

The U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has made key changes to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which is used to measure success rates in higher education.

UK universities must ensure that their policies on borderline scores do not in effect lower the thresholds for degree classifications, sector bodies say.

Half of all black students who took out federal student loans defaulted in 12 years, according to two analyses of new federal data on student borrowers.

Eric Tarczynski spent two years traveling around the country to put together a team of about 100 students at 50 campuses.

The threatened Central European University may face a further year of uncertainty over its future in Hungary, after the government extended the compliance deadline for its higher education act to 2019.

When Weatherford College swore in new trustee member Roger Grizzard at a meeting Thursday, there was no time wasted in addressing another need — student food insecurity.

New simulation study says peer review is better at assuring quality research than random publication choices, but some systems of review are significantly better than others. Editors seen as more effective than peer-review panels alone.