In an effort to be more inclusive to "transgender women," the University of North Carolina-Wilmington has changed its Women's Studies center to one for "Gender Studies."

Universities will come together to offer joint degree programmes and research projects

Students who live in the northeast part of South Carolina may have a new, more affordable option to attend college.

Nearly two years ago, a feminist philosophy journal faced demands to retract a paper that compared “transracialism” to transgenderism. Some of its editors quickly apologized, but were then overruled by the journal’s top editors.

A University of Minnesota student was reportedly in detained in China

Teaching California students about climate change may soon become mandatory. Public school teachers in California would be required to teach students as young as six-years-old about climate change under a recently proposed bill.

Conservative students say their organizations are often denied official campus recognition -- by other student leaders -- because of their political beliefs.

With student debt escalating and concerns persisting that college graduates are not job-ready, increasing numbers of companies are taking the training of their workers in-house. But where does that leave the higher education sector, asks Paul Basken

It wasn’t just the fact that one of China’s best universities had changed its charter last December to emphasize loyalty to the ruling Communist Party that raised eyebrows. Shanghai’s Fudan University also deleted principles like freedom of thought, and did so publicly, as if expecting praise.

Yale University has apparently deemed a longstanding history class focused on Western art problematic and may have abolished it from future course catalogs.