As north Mecklenburg County and the Lake Norman area have grown over the past few decades, newcomers have brought higher incomes — and skyrocketing housing

Assessing the scope of the shutdown’s impact on NSF-funded science will be a long process.

As secretary of homeland security, she signed the memorandum that created the popular program protecting ‘Dreamers.’ Now she’s fighting to save it.

Don’t find yourself; find a vocation.

Higher education helps individuals better adapt to changing technologies, markets and opportunities--all key for survival in today's era of digital transformation, Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger argues.

Johns Hopkins University’s proposal for an armed police force has received pushback from some residents, lawmakers and students, who are concerned about racial profiling and a lack of accountability with a privately operated, armed security department.

Older Americans are struggling under the burden of student loans—their children’s and their own.

Bennett College announces its total funds raised after an eight-week emergency fundraising campaign. The North Carolina college will appeal a decision by a regional body to remove its accreditation.

There’s a deeper meaning behind the us-and-them boundaries drawn by attendees of highly selective schools.

Bennett College in North Carolina needed to raise $5 million to try to save its accreditation. Meanwhile, transformational donations are going to other schools.

A UNC Greensboro student’s clothes were missing and heard rattling in her closet she thought might be a ghost or raccoon, but it was a man who broke in and was wearing her clothes and stealing more, police said.

What the closure of small colleges like Mount Ida, Wheelock, and Newbury College means for Boston's local education system.

Eastern Virginia Medical School leaders pledge that they’ll examine the culture that allowed blackface and Ku Klux Klan imagery into the commemorative publication.

The university will never move completely past the turmoil, said Linda Livingstone, who was brought in to steady the ship after her predecessor and other campus officials lost their jobs amid mishandled reports of rape.

But college will enroll those who were admitted early decision or were admitted a year ago and deferred enrolling.

Colleges and universities in Virginia and elsewhere, struggling with histories tied to slavery and the Confederacy, are forced by the scandal involving the governor's yearbook to consider the spewing of hatred in contemporary times.