Facing a $26 million shortfall caused by declining enrollment and a decade of budget cuts from state government, Kentucky’s community college system has cut 506 positions, including 170 faculty and staff jobs that were occupied.

Colleges around the country are adding facilities and adopting policies designed to help transgender students.

Ministers pressed ahead with plans for the teaching excellence framework despite having been warned that students were “not very enthusiastic” about the exercise and that the preferred metrics may fail to significantly differentiate between institutions.

Clemson's downtown and campus building booms are annoyances for anyone who tries to park a car on or near campus these days, but city and university officials have long-term solutions they believe will mitigate that.

Supporters of academic publishing worry about what Northern Illinois U may decide about a small press that punches above its weight in scholarship.

Academics are among the refugees – such as these crossing Croatia – fleeing fighting and often persecution in Syria to build new lives elsewhere

Universities must broaden their outreach activities beyond sport if they are to encourage more white working-class boys to enter higher education, a study suggests.

In the Middle East and North Africa, many researchers don't boast about their findings, explains one expert.

For seven days and counting, dozens of Seattle University students have been holding a sit-in in the lobby of a university administrative building, demanding an overhaul of one of the university’s elite programs and the resignation of a college dean.

Peer pressure and departmental culture, not a divide between quantitative and qualitative disciplines, may explain the variations between marks awarded to students in different subjects.