In health care, financial services, software development — even law — apprenticeships are offering an alternative to paying college tuition.

The school keeps tuition flat and innovates to reduce student debt.

Pressure to join the “herd groupthink” in New Haven.

Expert advice on how to manage, and communicate, expectations to nurture your changing relationship with your adult child.

In a new twist in the "Varsity Blues" admissions scandal, a California woman agreed to plead guilty to paying $9,000 to have someone take online classes for her son so he could graduate from Georgetown.

UNC-Chapel Hill faculty held a special meeting to discuss the Silent Sam settlement that forced the university to give the monument and $2.5 million to a Confederate group to preserve and display the statue.

The University of North Carolina agreed to pay the Sons of Confederate Veterans $2.5 million—a sum that rivals the endowment of its history department.

Colleges in the Northeast and Midwest have been experiencing an enrollment crunch as the numbers of high school graduates in both regions are declining.

International students say they were recruited by the University of Farmington -- set up by the U.S. government as part of a sting operation focused on student visa fraud -- after their institutions lost accreditation. Some blame the government for setting the students up.

Large introductory courses are notorious for being tedious, confusing, and even harmful. The University of Michigan is betting it can change all that.