An NYU professor who used an anonymous Twitter account to criticize the university, trigger warnings, safe spaces and the ‘academic left’ is on paid leave days after his identity was revealed. What happened?

Louisiana college students on TOPS will face a bigger price tag this spring when they feel the brunt of severe cuts to the scholarship program.

As ever-increasing tuition rates at many colleges and universities are putting a college education out of reach for some, Texas A&M University-Commerce is developing a program that has helped students earn a degree at a cost comparable to a single year at some schools.

Academics and students around the world face a “crisis” of assaults and persecution that appears to be getting worse, an international network has warned.

UCSF plans to lay off dozens of tech workers and outsource about a fifth of its information technology systems jobs to India — a move the university says will save it about $30 million over five years.

For years, many humanities leaders have urged doctoral students in their fields to consider jobs outside academe ...

Education Department releases regulations to protect student borrowers against fraudulent and abusive institutions. Although rules are aimed at for-profit colleges, critics say they could have repercussions for all colleges.

How should American universities – and those influenced by them in other countries – rise to the challenges of consumerism, anti-intellectualism and racial politics?

St. John’s University Staten Island campus announces the grand opening of the College Readiness Center at Ralph R. McKee Career and Technical Education High School

Vice-chancellors warn that leading researchers will flee if unrest over tuition fees is not resolved swiftly