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Two University of Maryland students were burned Monday afternoon after an explosion sparked a small fire in a chemistry lab, authorities said.

Virginia Tech, site of a 2007 mass shooting that killed 33 people, issues an alert that a person with a gun could be on campus and urges the community to stay indoors. An initial search comes up empty.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday criticized leaders of California's public universities for recruiting highly paid "hired guns" from across the country to run campuses instead of looking for home-grown talent that might be willing to work for lower salaries.

California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law on Monday a bill allowing illegal immigrants to receive privately funded scholarships to attend the state's public colleges and universities.

As if the vast distributed intelligence of the Internet were seeking to drive home a theme of my last post, I just tripped across this Reuters article relating some findings from the first wave of the UK household longitudinal study. The ambitious government-funded study will follow 40,000 households over 20 years, allowing researchers to tease out how changes in income, health, marital status, educational attainment and so on affect individual well-being over time.  Reporteth Reuters:

American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third most studied foreign language at America's colleges and universities.

Thousands of students and lecturers are demonstrating in central London against plans to almost treble tuition fees and cut university funding in England. The National Union of Students says about ...

When Duke University's Cathy Davidson announced her grading plan for a seminar she would be offering this semester, she attracted ...

The university's Commission on the Future issues proposals for revamping revenue and education policies, including taking more out-of-state undergrads, who pay more, and offering some courses online.

The University of California on Tuesday began considering dramatic changes in the way it educates its students and raises revenue, including whether to offer three-year bachelor's degrees and enroll more out-of-state undergraduates.

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