Pushing back against critics, a key nominee to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors said Thursday before a Senate panel that she would not make it more difficult for any industry to obtain bank loans.

Sarah Bloom Raskin and two other Fed nominees testified at their confirmation hearing, a key hurdle on the way to confirmation.

The Federal Reserve's inflation fight should be its top priority, President Joe Biden's nominees to the central bank's Board of Governors told lawmakers on Thursday, signaling support for a hawkish pivot in U.S. monetary policy that's already well underway.

This is a terrible time for liberal institutions to weaken academic freedom.

Brown University President Christina Paxson said she’s concerned that tighter federal government scrutiny of links with China among U.S. universities will hinder research and ultimately undermine the American economy.

Dozens of colleges and universities have faced a major headache over the last couple of years — lawsuits arguing that institutions owe students refunds for moving operations and instruction online. Two years into the pandemic, that tension has not gone away.

The University of Alabama Board of Trustees voted on Thursday to change the name of Graves Hall to Lucy-Graves Hall, in honor of Autherine Lucy Foster, who broke the color barrier and enrolled in the university in 1956, according to the Crimson White.

Community colleges, tribal colleges and minority-serving institutions that benefited from multimillion-dollar gifts from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott share how they plan to put the money to use.

In the last month, two universities have mistakenly given prospective students news that was too good to be true.