Higher Education

After nearly seven decades of searching, a Holocaust survivor discovered her family's stolen Pissarro, 'Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep'—and now she wants it back.

The university formed a working group last fall to examine its slaveholding past.

The two western New York schools are shaken days after the start of the school year.

They challenge findings by study-abroad industry insiders that claim American students are safer abroad than on their home campuses.

Unlike his recent speech at Rutgers University, Obama mostly steered clear of politics in his address to the graduates.

Can the First Amendment survive higher education?

The president criticized Donald Trump without speaking the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's name.

A survey shows that nearly 1 in 10 freshmen expects to protest, and more are identifying as liberal.

Addressing students' perceptions about alcohol and sex could help limit assault on campus, the researchers say.

BetterMakeRoom.org will be a platform for students to find information about applying to college.

A failure to test basic skills, such as writing and critical thinking, encourages widespread dumbness.

Shannon Lamb is suspected of first killing a woman, then a history professor, on Monday.

Educational excellence cannot be measured by the size of the wallets supporting it.

The school is in lockdown and the suspect is at large, officials confirmed.

Beginning next year, students can apply starting in October instead of January.

Funds should be tied to academic progress if free tuition is to blossom.

A Berkeley graduate student made headlines for teaching a class on 'Game of Thrones.'

A new book argues that the decline of traditional black colleges is a national problem that affects us all.

The more generous the government becomes with grants and loans, the more schools raise their rates.

A phrase referring to President Reagan's rhetoric as "bellicose" was also removed.

Last year Oklahoma, Georgia and Texas all introduced bills threatening to pull the course over the guidelines.

The school won't require most undergraduate applicants to submit SAT or ACT tests scores.

Data from a free college program in Kalamazoo, Michigan, suggests that more than money is needed to fix higher education.

There's Berkeley and Texas A & M, of course. But also schools in Virginia, Wisconsin, Missouri, Colorado, Georgia, Oregon ...

A huge donation to Harvard from billionaire John Paulson points to an increasing gap in which colleges get gifts.

A study found that two public university presidents earned more than $1 million last year.

'The New Yorker' writer mockingly warns that Harvard might soon be "down to its last $30 billion."

A new report uses an ingenious system to determine which schools best help their graduates get well paid.

NYU pushes back after petition against appointment of defender of Obama's drone policy.

A New York Times reporter's saga of being followed, bribed, recruited as a spy, and deported after a critical article.