Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Rhiannon Giddens received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Davidson College this week and then took the stage to perform a set of original and traditional North Carolina tunes on banjo and fiddle.

The former congresswoman, who fell out of favor with the Republican Party, accepted a teaching position at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.

The former Morehead-Cain scholar says UNC Chapel Hill banned him based on a conspiracy by four women to falsely accuse him of sexual misconduct.

Inside the racist origins of standardized testing at UT.

Increasingly, high school students are rethinking the value of college. Yet earning a degree is almost always worthwhile, research shows.

At Harvard-Yale conference on law school rankings, the education secretary joins the call for all colleges to stop participating.

Many of the institutions that have ditched the rankings also have some of the wealthiest undergraduate student bodies.