A professor asks why don’t they work on Wall Street if they want to earn so much money.

The number of Americans severely behind on payments on federal student loans reached 4.6 million in the third quarter, a doubling from four years ago, despite a historically long stretch of U.S. job creation and steady economic growth.

Harvard University’s endowment posted the worst returns in the Ivy League last year—and its new chief pushed for moves that would have made the results even worse.

Republican legislation making its way through Congress goes after a number of key student loan subsidies and deductions, and critics say it could make college less affordable for millions of Americans.

A former conductor of the University of California, Davis, Symphony Orchestra gave up his professor titles amid allegations he sexually assaulted a former student who now works at the university.

The president of Wesleyan University urges anxious students and families to look beyond college admissions.

Professors typically refrain from talking about their now-notable former students publicly, but some feel moved to do so in the public interest, good or bad.

GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards.

Republicans on House education committee -- with little patience for complaints over rushed process -- advanced out of committee an expansive update to law governing federal aid programs.

Top academic and student-affairs officials who have handled appearances by Milo Yiannopoulos and others shared lessons at a meeting held by the Council of Independent Colleges.

Evidence of a conservative group’s influence in student-government campaigns can be found on campuses from coast to coast.

When emails announcing a visit by the Project Veritas founder bombarded campus in-boxes, few had heard of the student group behind it all.