Surveys show an increasing number of U.S. institutions are working with commissioned agents to recruit international students.

Faculty members at various institutions debate the pros and cons of shielding freshmen from themselves (or least their performance) in the form of "covered" or "shadow" grades on transcripts.

Engineering students with the next great idea for a "Guitar Hero" spinoff or a portable solar lamp can soon get a first-ever degree in entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois.

Chancellor's smartphone action during recent graduation ceremony sparks conversation about academics' etiquette and netiquette (and lack thereof).

Fewer students at Tennessee's public colleges need remedial classes to prepare for higher education, a new report shows, and officials are citing it as an early example that a program embedding extra support in high schools is succeeding.

Smoking will be banned from all three Queensland University of Technology campuses from the start of the next financial year.

Taizhou University in Zhejiang province has remodeled its public bathroom that hasn't been used for years into a 35 self-study rooms and opened it to students in April, reported vcg.com on Friday.

Some kids will do anything to get out of school. Others risk their lives to get there.

The advertisements were tailored for Chinese college students far from home, struggling with the English language and an unfamiliar culture.

As a model for a federal initiative, she points to a program she helped start in Arkansas.