Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

How many times have you heard Barack Obama talk about "investing" in education? Quite a few, if you've been listening to the president at all.In fact Americans have been investing more and more in education over the years, led by presidents Democratic and Republican. But it's become glaringly...

Conservative critics have complained about the leftward tilt of college and university faculty since the 1950s. In contrast, the American Association of University Professors and similar groups have either denied that such a tilt occurs or refused to acknowledge that a balanced ideological representation is needed to educate students in...

Gender bias has been a hot button topic of discrimination for many years, but after analyzing 20 years of data, two Cornell professors have concluded that, in academic science, women are treated just as well as men.

Diversity has been a touchstone of American higher education for three decades. Universities have labored to pursue racial, ethnic, and gender diversity—in the conviction that this will foster open-minded exchanges and free inquiry. However, two recent studies have raised questions about whether this pursuit of diversity has somehow resulted in...

The university is evolving, leaving many to wonder whether a university education is quite the bargain that its defenders claim it to be and leading to significant changes in what students take from their university experiences.

Despite much speculation, it is not clear whythe dean of Ave Maria School of Law turned down two tenure petitions and dismissed a tenured professor.

One reason that feminist scholarship contains hard-to-kill falsehoods is that reasonable, evidence-backed criticism is regarded as a personal attack.