New York’s attorney general advances his investigations into possible financial conflicts of interest among colleges.

But some administrators don’t think “total saturation” of the service is necessary for it to work.

The scholar, described as “one of the greatest indigenous feminist intellectuals of our time,” was rejected by one program, approved by another.

A top official says, “excellence today is no guarantee of excellence in 10 or 15 years’ time.”

The journalism school’s chief had been criticized for using an unattributed quotation that praised a class.

Protests at the University of California’s Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses have similarities that are being investigated by the police.

There’s booming state spending on prisons, but the average state still spends about 65 percent more on higher education.

However, critics argue that the focus is off-base.

Some see Twitter and other “microblogging” services as the next big thing.

Marketers say the shows attract the demographic group that the colleges are seeking.

The tobacco company has ended one controversial program, but will continue to support some academic studies.

The chairmen of Congress’s education committees asked the secretary of education today to prepare for a possible crisis in student lending.

Young people with college experience are much more likely to vote than their peers are, a study shows

Thirty-seven percent of public high-school students who went to a public college in the state took a remedial course.

The University of Louisiana’s president will serve in the job for the second time.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation gives $1.8-million for expansion of Quest Atlantis.

The centers join a list of existing multidisciplinary, university-led centers that conduct research on security-related topics.

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San Francisco law student help college students singled out by recording industry.

Foes of the patent and related ones, all of them held by the University of Wisconsin at Madison, vow to continue to challenge them.

Abilene Christian University says the giveaway will start this fall.

The experimental institution had been on probation since last summer, when its accreditor issued a scathing report.

Attempts to mediate a dispute between the two organizations have failed, leading university administrators to step in.

Community colleges are caught up in a swirl of different learning and technology styles

Tennessee college is slapped with four-year probation and other penalties.