With the nation debating models and metrics for the federal government’s rating of America’s more than 4,000 colleges and universities, there’s one crucial area that no one talks…
Things got academic on Wednesday night's Colbert Report, as the funnyman interviewed Harvard professor Michael Sandel--or maybe it was the other way around, the Huffington Post reports.
Over the past several weeks, politicians, economic experts and business leaders have urged President Obama and Congressional leaders to agree to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the…
More than a month after the Obama administration issued weaker-than-expected regulations aimed at reining in abuses at some for-profit colleges, a trade association for the industry filed a…
The U.S. Department of Justice and a group of higher education organizations each filed briefs in federal court Wednesday arguing that the University of Illinois was prohibited by…
Rick O'Donnell, the controversial former special adviser to the University of Texas System, on Wednesday released a new analysis of faculty productivity data that label most faculty members…
Washington Post Co. said Tuesday that both the chief executive and finance chief of its Kaplan unit's higher-education division are stepping aside, reports the Wall Street Journal.
A new study out today from a pair of researchers at the University of Rhode Island shows that college-age kids may be as promiscuous electronically as they are…
A Harvard University fellow who was studying ethics was charged with hacking into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer network to steal nearly 5 million academic articles, the…
A Harvard University psychology professor has resigned, saying he wants to pursue other opportunities more than ten months after a faculty investigation found him "solely responsible" for eight…
University of Missouri-Kansas City Chancellor Leo Morton joined college leaders Tuesday on Capitol Hill and pleaded for lawmakers to spare funding for Pell Grants, reports the Kansas City…
