Holding students back to repeat a course, term or whole year of study – a policy known as “grade retention” – has positive effects on performance although it also increases dropout rates, a study has found.

If there's one thing Angela Warner has learned in her time running a food pantry in Albany's Pine Hills neighborhood, it's that you can't put a label on the hungry.

After realizing virtually all students bring their own laptops to campus, Wisconsin liberal arts college opened an unorthodox computer lab.

A group of 25 University of Iowa student associations recently asked campus President Bruce Harreld to denounce any policies created under a President Donald Trump administration that might be intimidating to minority and international college students.

Those familiar with George Orwell’s “1984” will recall that “Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought.”

Junior and community colleges in Texas can ban guns where there are children on campuses, so long as they don't issue a broad firearms prohibition in large areas or for entire programs, according to Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Telling students they will have to fail in order to learn, which will involve academics making “fundamental changes to how they teach”, is one of the key findings of a new report into teaching and learning innovation.

University presidents articulate specific commitments to support undocumented immigrant students, but in many cases eschew the term -- “sanctuary campus” -- preferred by activists.

A new report finds that university administrators aim to intimidate and censor content of student news organizations, violating basic principles of press freedom.

Academics are calling on the UK university sector’s main pension provider to sell its stake in a controversial arms manufacturer that has profited from selling cluster bombs ...