On same day Atlanta newspaper exposes decades KKK influence on the culture and activities of Wesleyan College, the women's institution publicly apologizes and acknowledges its past for first time.

Academics need new protections so that they can challenge university governance, a University of California, Los Angeles professor has argued, following a series of incidents in the US where faculty have faced calls for their dismissal for questioning institutional policies they see as threatening free speech.

Mcity will launch a driverless shuttle service on the University of Michigan’s North Campus beginning this fall.

Could King Arthur’s legendary round table provide the secret to university leadership? The head of what will be the UK’s first “greenfield” university in 40 years thinks so.

Professors are often lightning rods, but many see a new menace to academic freedom in recent physical threats against faculty members who speak out on race and other issues.

A UK-born vice-chancellor has said that he will be forced out of his job in Australia by new visa restrictions in the country.

Court agrees to hear case, reinstates ban except for foreign nationals -- including admitted students -- “who have a credible claim of a bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.

A number of lower income students will have easier access to Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering thanks to a $5 million grant that will link the university to two community colleges.

Academics have expressed concern about plans to expand a programme in the US which sees airline passengers asked to remove books from carry-on luggage.

Elsevier’s successful court battle against sites providing unlawful access to millions of journal articles sends a message that publicly funded research has become a “corporate asset and private property”, according to a scholarly publishing expert.