In the past three years, male students accused of sexual misconduct have filed hundreds of lawsuits, charging that they were the victims of both false allegations and school procedures that failed to properly vet the claims. More...

At a congressional luncheon in their honor Tuesday, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos told leaders from historically black colleges and universities that the Department of Education "will continue working closely with you to help identify evolving needs, increase capacity, and attract research dollars. We will also work closely with you to launch new initiatives that meet the needs of today's students." More...

Administrators at the University of Kansas knew they had a problem: Many of their most vulnerable students — largely low income and often the first in their families to go to college — were not graduating. More...

rSmart, the industry leader in providing virtual campus concierge services via its OneCampus platform, announced the launch of its first Banner by Ellucian Connector. The Banner Connector provides the hundreds of colleges and universities around the world using Banner systems with the ability to more efficiently create the online concierge tasks within OneCampus by directly importing critical data, reducing keystrokes and saving time. More...

Santa Rosa Junior College plans to eliminate the majority of its temporary support staff, up to 500 positions, to narrow a $3.4 million budget deficit brought on primarily by declining student enrollment. More...

"Can you simplify this square root?” Erica Fells asks her class, and hands wave in the air. All but one of the students believe that it’s impossible to do so. The dissenter, Leslie Alcantara, lays out her argument. “What do the rest of you think of Leslie’s reasoning?” Ms. Fells asks, and after some back-and-forth, they agree — she’s correct. More...

A hotly debated topic making the rounds in higher education now is whether American colleges and universities – public and private – face a round of mergers and acquisitions over the next several years. More...

Universities are home to innovation and new technologies, but some of the big ideas coming out of school labs may never become a reality. Turning them into viable businesses requires money, patience, and investor appetite. More...

An AI machine has taken the maths section of China's annual university entrance exam, finishing it faster than students but with a below average grade. More...

Few payments can seem as daunting as tuition payments. Not just because they are investments in a child’s future, or because parents have scrimped and saved to make them. Tuition fees are among the largest payments families ever make — and in sending a child abroad or out of state to study, might there be some anxiety with sending off the check or hitting the “send” button and praying that the payment goes where it must via the cloud, thousands of miles away. More...