The Pepperdine University Community in Malibu is responding this morning to a nearby fire in Malibu Canyon. Steps are being taken to shelter and place students in the Firestone Fieldhouse and faculty and staff residents in Tyler Campus Center. No campus evacuations are planned at this time.

The website of Oregon State University (OSU.edu) is currently down.

President Lee C. Bollinger issued the following statement to the Columbia community today in response to a hate crime incident at Teachers College. To see statements from Teachers College President Susan Fuhrman and Professor Madonna Constantine, go to the Teachers College Web site.

Further expanding public access to its intellectual riches through the most popular Web destinations, the University of California, Berkeley, announced today (Wednesday, Oct. 3) that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube.

Can we asses the rank of a college based solely on freshman retention rates, selectiveness and alumni giving amount? Or, is there more to being great school?

St. Johns University news release warns that a man was arrested today at about 3PM who had a rifle and was disarmed.

The China Education Expo 2007, to fall on Oct. 20 to 21, has attracted more than 200 European universities to attend, sources with the organizer said.

Having gone through the college selection process four times in recent years with my two daughters (yup, they both transferred from public state universities to private schools -- oddly both of them run by Jesuits), I can tell you that college's love the rankings put out by various guides.

Three Virginia Tech students who suffered carbon monoxide poisoning were transferred to Duke University Medical Center Sunday evening. All three are conscious and alert, and they are listed in stable condition.

Today (August 16), at a gathering of education leaders and decision makers at the Google campus in Mountain View California, five new universities announced they are launching Google Apps Education Edition on their campuses.

The University of Sydney has again ranked highly in the latest edition of The Good Universities Guide.

The University of Bath was "very pleased" to be ranked ninth among UK universities in the Daily Telegraph’s league table today (July 30).