New Mexico has 21 different governing boards running its 31 public colleges and universities, a higher education model some critics argue is inefficient and maybe even ineffective. More...

Donors have pulled back and incoming students have decided to go elsewhere in response to the firestorm that erupted from a professor’s racially-charged Facebook posts, Trinity College’s president said Monday. More...

A state law that allows licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns in higher education institutions is expanding to community colleges across Texas starting Tuesday. More...

Smokestacks — the last vestiges of the coal era at Ball State University — are coming down. More...

The University of Massachusetts Amherst and Eversource have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding continuing their energy-efficiency partnership with the goal of saving the university $1.8 million in energy costs annually. More...

For many students, heading back to school after a long summer break ranks right up there with getting a root canal.
But they’re not the only ones feeling the pain. Newly released figures from the National Retail Federation’s annual back-to-school survey show that families with children in elementary through high school plan to spend an average of $687.72 on supplies and clothing. More...

Along with much, if not most, of America, higher education seeks to gain a clearer picture of trends with the Trump administration. More...

Cengage, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson today announced an agreement with Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. to implement the industry’s Anti-Counterfeit Best Practices. The best practices were developed to assist publishers and distributors in combating counterfeits of print textbooks, a growing problem facing the industry. More...

For the 50 years since Radcliffe merged with Harvard, fueling the trend for women’s colleges to become coed, the University of Saint Joseph has remained an all-women’s institution. President Rhona Free talks about how she came to realize it was time for USJ, founded in 1932 by the Sisters of Mercy, to open its hallowed halls to male undergraduates. More...

The key issue is whether, in an effort to preserve free speech, college campuses could fall into an area where their actions would inhibit it. More...