Two national applications will offer applicants the chance to move past the traditional gender binary in classifying themselves.

Although the term made it into dictionaries only in 2014, crowdfunding is big business. In 2013, more than $5 billion (£3.5 billion) was raised worldwide, with millions of people pitching in to fund everything from video games to drones.

Wichita Area Technical College has announced a new scholarship program geared toward specific high-wage, high-demand fields ...

Before I blast the NGO community, let me say I consider them as a good friend.

Last week, both the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate passed a bill to cut the entire $436,000 (£301,000) state appropriation for an office at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville that promotes diversity at the state's flagship university.

Decision to grant a publisher the right to print the writings of Aaron Swartz -- viewed by some as a martyr of the open-access movement -- sets off a debate about copyright.

The Department of Education is calling on accreditation agencies to step up their review of colleges and universities, just as lawmakers are calling on the department to strengthen its review of accreditors.

In the face of rising temperatures and worsening drought, the world’s repositories of agricultural seeds may hold the key to growing food under increasingly harsh conditions.

Lost in the most consistently astonishing US presidential campaign since the 1864 Democrats ran on a platform of conceding the Civil War, is a disturbing question that seems to bring into doubt the very premise of the American experiment.

It’s not exactly a secret that professional athletes make a lot of money.