Davidson College graduate Patrick Braxton-Andrew, 34, went missing on a walk or hike in Urique, Mexico. The teacher at Mooresville’s Woodlawn School was supposed to meet his brother in Mexico City on Tuesday.

Brazil’s new far-right leader could apply his nationalistic message in ways that will have consequences abroad.

As a lawsuit challenging the use of affirmative action in admissions plays out, five freshmen reflect on why they beat the competition.

On Tuesday Durkin was reinstated and the president announced he would resign, but the university reversed course and fired the coach.

More than 6.3 million students took at least one distance education course in the Fall of 2016, 31.6 percent of all higher education enrollments.

The university has created a division to study the science of mining the tidal wave of digital information that floods our lives. More than 300 universities offer some type of data major at a time when companies like Google can’t hire enough specialists.

The rules will narrow the definition of sexual assault that schools are required to adjudicate, restrict eligible cases to those that occur on campus and require that accused students be allowed to cross-examine their accusers.

The data also show Amazon and Google are among the biggest employers of international students, nearly half of whom hail from India and China.

Private-equity titans are used to competing for billion-dollar buyouts. Now they are squaring off for 22-year-old spreadsheet crunchers.

Controversy follows Soros comments by George Mason University’s Christopher Farrell

We now have the bizarre spectacle of two talented UNC leaders, Tom Ross and Margaret Spellings, run out of town on the same rail, by the same board, by the same legislative leadership.

Baylor was fined $2 million by the Big 12 for doing damage to the conference with its sexual assault scandal.

Many U.S. higher education institutions are still grappling with how to comply with European Union data-privacy rules, but so far none have come under scrutiny.

University seeks to contain (self-inflicted) damage from news article and report mistakenly asserting that more than half of students have been harassed by professors.

David Card, a Berkeley economist, on Wednesday continued his defense of Harvard’s admissions process. Then he got an earful of tough questions from a lawyer who says the university discriminates against Asian-American applicants.

The regents’ decision to back DJ Durkin, the embattled football coach, while parting ways with the president led to charges of skewed priorities and mismanagement. But it was announced on Wednesday evening that Durkin, too, would leave.