One of the most remote outposts of Jesuit higher education is tucked away in dusty northwest Kenya, in a place whose name means “Nowhere” in Swahili.

Massachusetts has handed out $2 million in scholarships to students at state colleges and universities pursuing high-demand degrees.

The editor and the entire editorial board of the Journal of Library Administration have resigned in response to a conflict with the journal’s publisher over an author agreement that they say is “too restrictive and out of step with the expectations of authors.”

At a time many students have been facing rising debt, and many private universities have struggled to keep those debt levels down, Vanderbilt University stands out

Do colleges have a right to mandate all students pass drug tests?

As March Madness gets under way, a less widely noticed kind of intercollegiate competition is forcing students to churn endlessly through the higher-education system, wasting their own — and taxpayers’ — money.

The Republican-controlled Georgia House of Representatives voted Friday morning to pass legislation that would permit guns on college campuses, churches and public buildings and allow school administrators to be armed.

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to weigh the constitutionality of Michigan's voter-passed ban on the use of racial or ethnic preferences in public-college admissions.

"Many political scientists are bad at politics, dislike it, or both," wrote one political scientist in a comment to a blog post about the Senate vote to bar the National Science Foundation from funding most political science research.

The Russian government plans to significantly improve higher education infrastructure through an initial RUB40 billion (US$1.3 billion) injection of funds to develop campuses and student residences at national universities.