The student said his professor, a scholar of faculty-student romances, had tried to sabotage his thesis when he rebuffed her sexual advances.

The nation’s largest student-loan company is being investigated about its billing practices on subsidy payments by the federal government.

The university takes advantage of an exception to Ferpa that allows officials to tell parents about potential problems when students are financial dependents.

The student-lending giant will use the money to settle obligations from a stock buyback.

Evangelical preacher had sued over limits on access to the campus.

Audit also finds college credit given for GED classes.

A corporate executive and governor’s daughter earned an M.B.A. even though she was apparently 22 credits short.

We’ll be back in the new year.

Merit-based research took a hit, earmarks continued to climb, and open access got a vote of support.

Students will no longer train on cats, dogs, ferrets, and, soon, pigs.

Facebook was one of Merriam-Webster’s top words of the year.

A new video series instructs Web surfers on how to protect their personal information.

A Brown U. student camped out for a week to produce a video.

Nine institutions will each get $500,000 annually in the 2008 and 2009 fiscal years.

Purdue’s Department of Computer and Information Technology prepares students for the future of supercomputing.

Scholarly and industry groups complain the federal government has reneged on pledges to increase money for science and engineering education and research

A look back at hot topics of the year in education technology

Few adults take steps to limit information about themselves on the Web, a poll finds.

Critics say teaching in virtual worlds dumbs down education