A generation of American students has become tragically familiar with mass shootings. Many of them describe the life-changing experiences in their college applications.

You don’t have to know exactly where you’re headed, but it helps to have a sense of direction.

Stephen Schwarzman, the billionaire co-founder of the Blackstone Group, is giving $188 million to the University of Oxford to create a center for the humanities that he hopes will help steer the ethical adoption of artificial intelligence.

The pitch to high-school students and their parents is simple: Take that tough class at an online or alternative school, while remaining enrolled full-time elsewhere, and boost your grade-point average. Such schools are finding a lucrative niche.

A Boston-based genealogical organization and a Georgetown University graduate who launched a project to trace the family histories of hundreds of black slaves sold by the Jesuits who ran the college in 1838 have teamed up to digitize the information and make it available to people researching family histories.

Following mob mentality against a bakery led to an $11 million libel case.

What does this mean about education reform and American society?

This could give the couple even more influence in public policy.

A new book explains why America’s top universities need to rethink their approach to diversity and inequality.

When Yale would not listen to their pleas for equal treatment, the college’s 1976 women’s crew team took the matter, and history, into their own hands.

Small schools across the United States are facing budget shortfalls and low enrollment—leading some to shut down in the middle of students’ higher-education experience.

Professor sues Wesleyan U, saying it failed to act against students who falsely called him a "sexual predator" for two years.

Last year was a record one for gifts to colleges, but trends about middle-income individuals may point to future problems, report finds.

A Georgia-based company is selling off Newbury College’s desks, computers, and even classroom supplies. The chief executive says other, unnamed colleges are in the pipeline.