Accreditation

The state will pay 73 former Virginia Western Community College nursing students a total of $2.4 million to settle a fraud lawsuit.

Shortly after applying for university status, St. Peter's College has received word from New Jersey's Secretary of Higher Education.

Dickinson State University is taking numerous steps to address academic integrity issues recently identified by state auditors, the school's president said.

After 140 years of higher education, St. Peter’s College in Jersey City has applied to the state to be considered a “university.”

When Mount Mary College marks its 100th anniversary in fall 2013, it will officially change its name to Mount Mary University.

Response to Chylinski's lawsuit says he used college funds for personal meals, antiques, unapproved salary supplements

The chancellor of North Dakota's university system says no immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University employees in the wake of an audit determining the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn't earn them.

Polk's dismissal comes in wake of accreditation problems

Dibyendu Malakar needed a graduate business degree to advance his career, but he was working full time and could not afford $100,000 or more for a two-year M.B.A. program at Berkeley, Stanford or another accredited business school. So Mr. Malakar enrolled at Frederick Taylor University, an unaccredited school in Moraga.

Culinary college will continue as branch of for-profit institution many students and faculty will stay on