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Darroch (Rocky) Young was named Wednesday as the next chancellor of the Los Angeles Community College District, a nine-campus system, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. Young, vice chancellor of the system, was previously the president of the system's Pierce College.Voters in Southwestern Michigan College's district on Tuesday rejected a tax increase that would have increased support for the two-year institution, The Kalamazoo Gazette

Appeals court says university must pay -- if it wants to change controversial name of a dormitory.

Asked to predict which institution would join Southern Methodist University in the pantheon of worst rules violators in the history of college sports -- becoming only the second recipient of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's so-called death penalty -- most observers would have guessed highly visible repeat wrongdoers like Auburn University or the University of Kentucky.

Master’s degree programs in history play a role far more influential than would be indicated by the number of students enrolled. Because those students go on to either earn Ph.D.’s, teach in community colleges, teach in high schools or work in "public history," these programs have a broad impact on what millions of Americans will be taught about history.

Drive for independence could hurt the creditworthiness of lower-tier state institutions, Standard & Poor's warns.

The new writing tests on the SAT and ACT are educationally unsound, according to the National Council of Teachers of English.

Robert C. Andringa -- an influential figure in Washington higher ed circles -- announced plans to retire.

Supreme Court will decide long-running dispute over campus access for military recruiters.

In American society today, some words just can't be apologized away.