Jen Ray’s ‘Surrounded by Wolves’ exhibition at Davidson shows a key inspiration for the N.C. native: a circus performer

The Senate’s top education leaders will consider reinstating Pell grants for incarcerated students, a move that would restore a federal lifeline to the country’s prison education system.

Students and alumni at some of the nation's top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies that give an edge to relatives of alumni.

When speech is protected, debate replaces mayhem.

A March 5 deadline is looming for a resolution for nearly 700,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. as children. The young people, their schools and employers are beginning to make contingency plans.

Betsy DeVos is preparing to undo another pernicious Obama school policy.

First-generation student groups are protesting affirmative-action practices that privilege the relatives of alumni—even though their own families could one day benefit.

Fewer than 1 in 5 rural adults aged 25 and older have college degrees.

Journal article reveals that anger and confusion at University of Missouri in 2015 were due in part to fabricated reports that were part of a disinformation campaign from Russia.

FBI director Christopher Wray tells Senate panel that American academe is naïve about the intelligence risks posed by Chinese students and scholars. Some worry his testimony risks tarring a big group of students as a security threat.

Americans who don’t go to college are getting sicker and dying younger. Here are strategies that colleges can adopt to narrow the widening gulf in health outcomes.