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College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year -- although at a slower rate -- while the bachelor's degree got more popular.

New study of economics professors' research effort and impact says they're not exactly "swinging for the fences" after getting tenure.

Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away by rank, speaker pool composition or women's interest in giving talks.

GOP’s Higher Education Act rewrite would give a boost to competency-based education, short-term certificates and alternative providers, but experts worry about the bill’s lack of safeguards.

A smaller-than-expected freshman class is continuing to cause budget issues at the Ohio institution. Professors are tired of salary freeze.

Jim Jump considers the extra point that was awarded -- only to male applicants -- by Brigham Young.

By Jim Jump

Research was done on graduate education, but paper suggests implications for undergraduate education as well.