By Stefanie Botelho. Higher education leaders from across the state gathered twice this week, once at the request of Gov. Susana Martinez, to build momentum for reforms aimed at making a more logical path to and through college in the state. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Apollo Education Group, Inc.'s, under its flagship school, University of Phoenix (UOP), introduced a new career-oriented program in Correctional Program Support Services at its Central Valley Campus in Fresno, Calif. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The Unity College community is lauding passage of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change agreement in Paris. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin has wound its way back to the Supreme Court, which will once again examine whether consideration of race in undergraduate admissions is constitutional. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Last week, during oral arguments in the Fisher v. University of Texas affirmative action case, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia drew outraged criticism for declaring that “there are those who contend that it does not benefit African­-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less­ advanced school, a slower­-track school where they do well.” More...

By Stefanie Botelho. The main dining hall at Trinity College starts you off with a choice of infused water: lemon, pineapple, strawberry, melon. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. With the reputation of U.S. for-profit colleges in tatters, one company has found a convenient way to circumvent regulation in this country: by operating primarily in overseas markets. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. Everyone loves inspiring, up-by-the-bootstraps academic narratives, stories of successful students who are also ex-convicts or former welfare mothers or persecuted immigrants, and many students who participate in Vassar College's Exploring Transfer program have beaten harrowing odds. More...

By Stefanie Botelho. In his new book, The Scholar Denied, the sociologist Aldon Morris writes that contrary to the discipline’s preferred origin story, the field of sociology was actually founded by W.E.B. DuBois, the first black person to receive a Ph.D. in the United States. More...