When Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum calls President Barack Obama "a snob" for wanting all Americans to attend college, he may be out of step with the public's…
President Barack Obama on Feb. 27 urged the nation's governors to invest more state resources in education, saying a highly skilled workforce is crucial for the U.S. to…
A Kentucky university is aggressively fighting parody and criticism of school officials on Twitter and other social media sites, which students and free-speech advocates say is a constitutionally…
The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear the controversial case Fisher v. University of Texas. The case comes from Abigail Fisher, a white college student, who sued…
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said on Monday that more people should go to college, walking back from comments made by presidential candidate Rick Santorum, who has been critical…
Students at Cambridge University are circulating a petition against a planned speech there by former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose career and French presidential ambitions were derailed by…
Major universities aren't the only schools testing the eBook market. Tarrant County College (TCC) in Texas is the latest small campus to study whether a shift to digital…
Representing a historic high, three in 10 adult Americans held bachelor’s degrees in 2011, census officials reported Thursday, according to the Washington Post.
President Obama tries to pressure colleges into taming their wildly soaring tuition costs. Good luck with that, say dismissive critics, The Week reports.