In her first public event addressing higher education, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos lauded community colleges for their flexibility, innovation and the myriad roles they play in their communities.

Rollins College officials have suspended all fraternities after concerns over “high risk behaviors” surfaced this week, a spokeswoman confirmed.

Administration rescinds guidelines that said Title IX applied to discrimination based on gender identity. Guidelines had been used by transgender students to push for policy changes.

Tsinghua University has denied suggestions the university's new system of admission for international applicants has made it easier for foreign students to get a chance to study in the university

Educators at institutions of higher learning once told incoming freshmen at their orientation to look to the person standing to the left of them — then to look at the person standing to their right.

A new book argues that the focus on credentials and growing inequality led to the rise in for-profit colleges.

As environmental standard-bearer and green technology pioneer, no other state rivals California.

Before Martin Shkreli's event at Harvard could even get started Wednesday night, it was set briefly on ice.

Scholars who publish research with hundreds of co-authors should receive no more than one-third of the current credit they get for such papers, according to a proposed formula designed to eradicate “gift authorship”.

When David Erickson leaves his home in Long Beach, California to spend several days on Panama’s southern coast, he also reluctantly gives up his smartphone.