Foundation for the Carolinas, which has its annual meeting Thursday in Charlotte, has a record $2.5 billion in assets and made $420 million in grants last year. It’s the sixth-largest community foundation in the U.S.

Drew Dansby, 17, is considered one of the brightest young musical minds in recent Charlotte history. Now the gifted cellist/violinist faces the biggest choice of his young life, with the help of his parents, and the teachers and mentors he has wowed along the way.

American schools are as racially divided today as they were in the 1960s. Case in point: Charlotte, North Carolina.

Ginning up ideas isn’t always the hard part in academic innovation. Instead, more and more leaders working on digital initiatives at colleges are finding themselves with a less technical challenge: strategic communications.

Mark Dombroski, 19, was found in a Bermuda dry moat on Monday. The police said there was no evidence of foul play, but it is not yet known what caused him to fall.

Amy Wax: Aggressive suppression of the truth is a central feature of American higher education.

The California Supreme Court ruled that the University of California can be held liable for failing to protect a student from being stabbed by a schizophrenic classmate.

Federal policy for decades has pushed more people to go to four-year colleges, but technology is changing faster than colleges can keep up. So companies are increasingly taking matters into their own hands.

If you were to pick two terms to describe today’s strange financial world, you could do worse than “bitcoin” and “crippling student debt.”

William Stixrud argues that students need to stop worrying about school grades and admission to prestigious colleges like Harvard and Yale.

He called the idea of a crisis "highly overblown."

President Trump, in forum on issues facing young people, extols vocational training and repeats comments that many educators said reflected ignorance of the two-year sector. He also says he is more popular on college campuses than most realize.

March's four snowstorms have real costs for colleges in the Northeast. But colleges around the country plan to pay in case of extreme weather.

The idea that a professor teaches better when there are fewer students makes intuitive sense. But even when that’s true, it comes with trade-offs.