No matter how many accolades or how much media attention Wu Mengdi receives, the up-and-coming handbag designer says she's really not all that artistically inclined.

Getting in can be grueling.Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure ...

“After a lifetime here, I find it hard to believe how much experiments, excitement, progress and change are taking place in Washington,” said a veteran D.C. edreformer.

Shooting instructor Johnny Price looked at the teachers lined up in front of him, a selection of handguns resting on the table before them.

With the proliferation of scholarly journals – particularly open-access Internet journals that charge author fees – some librarians consider themselves on the front lines of the fight to preserve quality publishing.

When the University of Sydney plucked Kim Walker from one of America's most prestigious music schools to revive the fortunes of its Conservatorium of Music, her career was in full flight.

The interactive online service is intended to provide students with data on colleges, but critics suggest it's missing important context.

Educators knew the online revolution would eventually envelop the physical classroom, but a torrent of near-revolutionary developments in the past month are p..

Higher ed’s bubble is about to burst, writes Brooks. Many people must make a “cost-effective college investment” or forego higher education.

Since he started teaching at Johns Hopkins University in 2005, Professor Peter Frölich has maintained a grading curve in which each class’s highest grade on the final counts as an A, with all other scores adjusted accordingly.