If you struggle to know when it is appropriate to give someone a hug or even simply pat them on the arm, help is at hand.

New Jersey students who may not have considered applying for college because of financial constraints could have their tuition costs completely waived or reduced by half through a program being offered by Rutgers University-Camden.

Large and growing gaps in SAT scores, by race and ethnicity, are nothing new.

Federal authorities launched a civil rights investigation on Tuesday into a white deputy's arrest of a black high school student in South Carolina

More than 300 UK academics have pledged to boycott Israeli academic institutions in protest at what they describe as the country’s “intolerable human rights violations” against Palestinians.

The state Education Department has streamlined how it reviews new academic programs proposed by colleges and universities ...

US universities must provide more “navigational” support to help students from poor backgrounds succeed in higher education, according to one of the world’s leading authorities on social mobility.

The choice of a single textbook for one section of a course at one university might seem like a decidedly local issue.

In a vote on Tuesday, the Alamo Colleges board of trustees could end a yearlong struggle over whether to list majors on transfer student records ...

There are schools in America intent on breaking away from the norm.