Pearson vows to remove material amid uproar over advice on how nursing students should evaluate people by their racial, ethnic or religious backgrounds.

An announcement last month by the Chinese government about which institutions will be included in its latest funding initiative to create “world-class” universities may have pricked up the ears of the elite Western institutions that dominate higher education rankings.

At the urging of Gov. Rick Perry, Texas A&M University-Commerce developed an online degree program that can be completed for less than $10,000.

The president of Connecticut State Colleges and Universities has unveiled a plan to consolidate the state's 12 community colleges into a single system.

U.S. trade commission accuses Victory Media of letting colleges pay for inclusion in “matchmaker” tool, materials targeting military service members.

It is often thought that a young academic in any field publishes early and often, peaks after about five years, secures a permanent position and then gradually grows less productive until retirement.

Hundreds of protesters have marched on the University of Florida to decry a speech by a white nationalist.

New questions are being raised at Kennesaw State after local politicians boasted about influencing the president’s decision on how to respond to a racial protest movement.

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.