But similar layoffs have been happening at universities and colleges nationwide in what may be a little-noticed tipping point in U.S. higher education. A decades-long increase in the number of ...

He’s a first-year student attending Babson College on a full scholarship, majoring in business with a concentration in entreprene ...

The Trump administration is making universities afraid to support diversity — and counting on them to retreat. Last month, the Treasury Department and IRS proposed rules that threaten to strip private ...

The Trump administration is making universities afraid to support diversity — and counting on them to retreat. Last month, the Treasury Department and IRS proposed rules that threaten to strip private ...

Americans are turning against higher education. At least, that’s what many of them say. Only 31 percent of Americans now consider a college education “very important,” accor ...

The State University of New York in Binghamton offered a better financial package over four years than a top private university did. Credit: Binghamton University The Hechinger Report covers one topic ...

The study, presented Sept. 26 at the annual conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness in Baltimore, followed the finances of Arkansas school districts for two decades. It ...

Higher education runs on trust. A family commits four years and a significant sum of money on faith that the credential earned will hold value, that the institution has their student’s interests at ...

When Mike Huckabee was the Arkansas governor in 2004, he wanted government to be more efficient. He signed a law to shut down tiny school districts with fewer than 350 students. Over the next decade, ...

The village conducted a feasibility study and changed the zoning for the property to make it more attractive to developers; a group of local investors then bought up many of the buildings to convert ...