Like it or not, there are ways in which higher education is a business. Students have the freedom to stop paying and go elsewhere if they find better alternatives.

The president had promised to offer a plan within weeks, not months, but the complex political climate is cause for delays.

Emails obtained via an open records request show two professors who helped develop the new center believe UT-Austin President Jay Hartzell backed off a plan to bring 'intellectual diversity' to campus.

Some of higher education's most respected leaders are exiting their positions later this month.