Hundreds of colleges have begun seeking a new accreditor after the U.S. Department of Education last month backed a federal panel’s decision to terminate the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools.

Since athletes and others have been taking a knee during the national anthem, the leaders of public colleges and universities have offered a variety of views on whether the protests are wise.

College freshman Mia Barone’s fingers are flying in the campus library, her eyes closed as she signs the words on her study list — tomorrow, free, champion, flirting.

Emily Chen's experiences at a private boarding school in the United States have had nothing but positive results.

The University of Mary, Turtle Mountain Community College and Sitting Bull College were awarded federal grants this week to help more Native Americans pursue careers as teachers and administrators in high-need, reservation schools.

A group of professors and not-so-academic writers declare support for the GOP presidential candidate. But the list of signatures highlights Trump's limited appeal in academe, even among Republican presidential candidates.

In any election cycle, there are bound to be references -- some of them disdainful -- to “liberal academe.”

Nearly 80,000 students of defunct for-profit giant Corinthian Colleges are facing some form of debt collection ...

Putting aside what the school sees as restrictions based on gender, the University of Wisconsin-Stout’s annual homecoming on Saturday will for the first time in nearly 80 years not crown a homecoming king and queen.

Chinese students at top-ranking universities are less creative than those at less prestigious institutions, a new study has found ...