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Moody's Investors Service foresees potential trouble for some institutions of higher education, particularly for small private colleges that draw locally, some community colleges, and regional or less-selective public institutions.

Advocates of Education Secretary Margaret Spellings's ideas on how to make colleges more affordable and accessible are disappointed at the slow rate of improvement.

Federal agencies improperly ask colleges to keep unclassified research secret, says a new report. And the Secretary of Defense apparently agrees.

The nation's decentralized approach toward organizing its health-care work force could leave millions of Americans without adequate care, the Association of Academic Health Centers warned in a report released on Thursday.

Despite having access to more and more journal articles online, scholars are citing fewer and fewer discrete articles in their papers, according to a study published today in "Science."

At Education Department's farewell summit, U.S. plan to restructure financial aid system earns cautious (and rare) praise from college leaders.

Last day of Blackboard conference features educational bells and whistles galore. As for those handheld input devices: They might be more than just hype.

In ambitious, long-term effort, West Point maps and measures a multi-layered set of outcomes across the curriculum.

Co-author of new book on racism faced by Asian Americans describes findings about college students.

For the sake of students, Congress should require legislatures to maintain their funding of higher education, F. King Alexander writes.

Everybody is down about the shaky economy except college fund raisers, who look ahead and see growth.

An economist who says that the "Journal of Political Economy" has failed to acknowledge serious flaws in a 2007 paper on file sharing has taken his battle to the Internet.

The proposed new admissions policy would de-emphasize test scores and give the system's campuses greater flexibility in choosing their freshman classes.

The survey intends to identify any problems that Pell Grant recipients may face when they try to transfer credits and courses between institutions. Critics say they suspect other motives.

Professional development for the timid colleague, in Matthew Henry Hall's new cartoon.

Education Department survey about transfer of credit seen as last-ditch effort to build federal case for change in colleges' policies.

Key senators will push for $5.2 billion in supplemental funding for National Institutes of Health, directing $1.2 billion to cancer research.

Research released in new book argues that a set of nuanced issues -- such as assignments that take female professors away from scholarly inquiry -- limit their advancement.