Colleges and universities find themselves being pulled deeper into the political arena by lawmakers and students alike.

Administrators can no longer rely on standard scientific benchmarks to receive critical higher education research funding. Here is what will change on the university grant writer's desk.

Education Department officials call the move "premature" and an effort to "sabotage" the agency's mission to eliminate bureaucratic barriers.

Title IX allows schools to provide separate sports teams for men and women, as defined by biological sex, Supreme Court rules.