Many people can likely remember how expensive text books are in college, but Virginia Tech is trying to solve that.

Academics have predicted a crackdown on Confucius Institutes across the West, as the UK becomes the latest country to launch an investigation into the role and influence of the Chinese government-funded centres.

Nursing colleges add curricula to deal with a growing public health problem.

Students at many Texas colleges struggle to find enough food to eat — and struggle academically as a result

European universities and research organisations could save hundreds of millions of euros a year by switching to an open access publishing system, a new analysis of subscription deals with publishers has concluded.

A new online platform dubbed the “legal Sci-Hub” is set for major expansion, promising to offer academics “one-click access” to millions of journal articles and research papers.

The state’s attorney general pledged over the weekend to examine the planned closure of struggling Mount Ida College, which will merge with UMass Amherst, as students and parents grappled with an uncertain future.

Chicago's proposed undergraduate business major was short-lived, but the economics faculty found a way to save it, as a new "track."

What differentiates the Mayfield Innovation Center from traditional classrooms is evident not just in the virtual reality technology, the 3-D printers or the open architecture that make the two-floor, 30,000-square-foot building seem less of a secondary school than a Google satellite office.

In 2015, the state of Hawaii committed to converting 100% of its energy supply to renewables by 2045.