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In many countries, undergraduate degrees focus on one area of study and take three years. But in the U.S., students are expected to take a series of courses across the arts and sciences before they choose their major. This process is supposed to take four years, though many students need more...

Not exactly, according to a new survey of the two groups conducted by the Association for Graduate Enrollment Management (NAGAP). Compared to students, the managers overestimated the difficulty of the application, while underestimating how hard it is for students to find the “best fit” school...

“John Thelin embodies all of the qualities that the medallion is meant to honor: a dedication to scholarship, a commitment to his community, and academic achievements of the highest order,” said Doug Way, dean of UK Libraries.

Elizabeth Hoover faces calls to quit after failing to check family stories about her heritage

For her entire life and in her professional career, based on family members’ accounts, Elizabeth Hoover said she was a Native American. a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, admitted last week that she is white, contrary to her prior claims throughout her life that she was Native American. Elizabeth M. Hoover, an associate professor of environmental science, policy and management, published a long personal essay on her website.

Stillman College is the first HBCU in the country to withdraw from the popular ranking.

Trump's campaign promise to fire college accreditors that do not uphold a new set of educational standards that he proposed this week may be difficult to enact.

When students learned that the university declined to renew professor R. Scott Heath’s contract, they came together to ask questions and advocate for his return, calling his firing unjust.

After a decade of parents rushing to enroll their children in specialized math classes, and university humanities departments in crisis mode, a radical education movement is taking hold. Why not have students study Shakespeare and the quadratic formula? Prepare for a new Renaissance generation. 

The two institutions debuted Axim Collaborative, a new nonprofit focused on broadening college access. The new venture offers a bold vision with scant details.  Almost two years ago, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sold edX, their pioneering massive open online course provider, to 2U, an online program management company. At the time, many in higher ed argued that edX’s sale to a for-profit company undermined its nonprofit mission to expand access to learning.