Come November, the University of Iowa will have a businessman with little experience in academe at its helm -- and many faculty members and others in Iowa City aren’t happy about it.

East Asian universities may never catch up with their Western counterparts because of a “toxic academic culture” in the region, according to a brutal assessment by a Hong Kong academic.

Talk about graduate school being broken is beginning to sound like a broken record

Presidents of Vermont’s twenty-four colleges and universities recently approved a plan to consolidate multiple higher education associations under one umbrella organization, The Vermont Higher Education Council (VHEC).

Oklahoma Wesleyan University on Monday became the second institution to withdraw from the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) after two member schools changed their hiring policies to include same-sex couples.

Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution

Seven months ago free community college was the higher ed policy idea with the most buzz

This summer, New Mexico State University joined the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement (SARA) after the state of New Mexico joined the initiative in May.

A group of top girls' schools in Britain has launched a campaign to make sure important women in history, science and the arts are included in the curriculum to challenge a "default to men" attitude in schools.

Washington State University on Monday announced that it would not allow instructors to make "blanket" bans on the use of certain words or phrases in class, even if those words and phrases offend people.