A foundation supportive of defunding the police granted the University of Illinois-Chicago $1.5 million for a think tank focused on “abolition, economic democracy and climate justice.” Read more

All but one public university in Virginia are taking steps to address students' tuition burden after a call to action from the governor. Read more

Last week's wildfires across London show that lessons learned tackling rural blazes must urgently be applied to built-up areas, fire chiefs say. Read more

Your arms morph into flippers. Your back grows round and hardens. You swim through thick ocean waters, dodging fishing gear and ships that can maim along the way. You are a loggerhead sea turtle—or at least that is what your brain perceives when you wear a virtual reality headset and enter Project SHELL (Simulating Living Habitat Experiences of Living Loggerheads), a research project of the University of Oregon and the University of Florida. Read more

A survey conducted by Harvard University student newspaper The Harvard Crimson revealed that the number of liberal-identifying faculty in the Arts and Sciences Department has increased, and only around 1% of faculty identify as conservative. Read more

A group of 60 Congressional Democrats asked the Education Department to clarify how Title IX protects students who are pregnant, parents or seeking an abortion. Read more

Nationally, it’s being described as a “male college crisis,” and Indiana is not immune to the trend. Read more

Japanese police are turning to tranquiliser guns in an attempt to stem the tide of wild monkey attacks that have been terrorising residents. Read more

The online offshoots of LSU and UMass are two examples of institutions taking Credit for X to the next level. Read more

The 10-campus University of California system is implementing a statewide policy requiring that an individual’s gender identity is fully recognized on college campuses and even within the UC’s medical facilities. Read more