Expressing gratitude to students of color for calling attention "to actions needed to address racism and injustice on our campus," Brown President Christina H. Paxson has developed a plan and asked students, faculty and staff to comment on it.

Black Lives Matter, that increasingly catchall movement asserting black dignity, is having a major moment on college campuses across the country, including Southern California.

About two-thirds of female academic leaders are unhappy with their work-life balance, with 85 per cent regularly working beyond normal contracted hours each week, a major survey indicates.

A preliminary snapshot of the academic skills of students who are enrolled in a new, aggressive form of competency-based education is out, and the results look good.

England’s higher education spending increased in the first year of £9,000 tuition fees and its financing system allowed it to “raise spending in difficult times”, unlike European rivals, but the country has the most expensive public universities in the world.

Author discusses book offering a critical analysis of massive open online courses from a social science perspective.

In May, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) made news by announcing it would offer all employees free tuition at Strayer University.

While college degrees take years to complete and cost many thousands of dollars, Google is now backing a scheme to get people a "nanodegree" in just six months.

Universities have gone “too far” into the business model of providing full-time residential degrees to be able to “adapt” provision to offer the higher technical and professional education needed to boost productivity.

For weeks, high-profile protests at college campuses across the country have forced schools to have uncomfortable conversations about race and diversity.