No broad-based international agreement on sharing rivers currently exists, even though much of the world depends on water from rivers that flow through more than one nation. But that may be about to change, as two separate global river treaties are close to being approved.

Sebastian Thrun, winner of the Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award for education takes is redefining the modern classroom

The Tufts University Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to rescind the honorary degree awarded to Lance Armstrong at commencement in 2006.

When it comes to textbook costs, publishers are often seen as owning all the levers.

A statement by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation and the American Association of University Professors is not meant to suggest that accreditors are failing to uphold academic freedom, an official says.

The Obama administration is losing another official who has played a major role in shaping its higher education policy.

The general public is getting tired and suspicious of meaningless green claims. But that doesn’t mean they’re not interested in sustainability.

The taxi driver who dropped me off at McCormick Place, the convention center where the annual joint conference of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature is being held, asked if it was a meeting of religious people—like nuns and priests.

At least two-third of the species that live in the world's oceans are completely unknown, according to latest research published last week in the journal Cell Biology.

Maryland regents approved the university’s move to the Big Ten Conference on Monday, but not all of them were happy about how the deal went down.