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A senior on the Virginia men's lacrosse team was charged Monday with the slaying of a fellow student on the women's team, stunning ...

Sarah Palin is expected to raise nearly $200,000 for an appearance on a California State University campus in June. But the school foundation hosting the $500-a-plate event won't say what they are paying her, or even how much the party will cost - and that has angered a San Francisco lawmaker who is using the opportunity to push his bill for greater transparency by public university foundations.

Seton Hill University plans to give every first year undergraduate student a 13" MacBook and an iPad. Just last month, George Fox University in Oregon also announced that it plans to give its new students a choice between a MacBook or an iPad.

Big changes in the student loan program will help make college more affordable for students and their debt load more manageable ...

The measure ends billions of dollars in subsidies paid to commercial banks for making federally backed student loans in which they bore almost no risk, and expands direct federal loans to students instead.

The demonstrations, which are backed by a range of groups, are taking place on college campuses and at public schools.

The University of California San Diego has suspended a student who admitted to hanging a noose in a campus library, school officials announced Friday.

It is a grand vision: a global college with no tuition, accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.

Some critics question a University of Minnesota Medical School decision to stop using live patients to teach med students how ...

A biology professor charged with killing three faculty members at the University of Alabama in Huntsville also has been charged with wounding three others, police said.