Calls for free college, long a goal of the left (and, long ago, a reality in some states), went somewhat mainstream Tuesday morning.

It was an exceptionally busy academic year for pro-Palestinian student activism on campus.

Just under a year after Jamie Comstock Williamson became president of Winthrop University, the board suspended her on Friday and announced its intent to fire her.

US coffee chain firm Starbucks will pay college fees for US workers to complete a bachelor's degree online in a tie-up with Arizona State University.

Unizin is “the Internet2 for digital education,” its founders say. It’s about “creating common gauge rails.” It will be a “goldmine for researchers.” And it begins with Canvas, Instructure’s learning management system.

Part of the conservative critique of higher education is that liberal professors indoctrinate students, turning middle-of-the-road students into Young Democrats (or Young Socialists).

Relaxing in the CIO lounge at Educause's annual ed-tech conference last year, A. Michael Berman heard several of his colleagues remark that entering it "felt like you were walking through this curtain into a different world."

Hardly anybody in higher education seems to like the Obama administration's proposed ratings system.

Over the objections of Senator Claire McCaskill, the American Council on Education has been keeping secret the advice it gave members about complying with the lawmaker’s sexual assault survey.

Architectural Digest. Wired. Gourmet. Popular magazines and producers of high-quality content, of course -- but educational providers?