The former president of Penn State University and two other former administrators were sentenced to jail terms Friday for failing to report a 2001 allegation that assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was molesting young boys.

Amid growing concern about fraud in research and the challenges of reproducing the results of scientific trials, these questions were hotly debated at the World Conference on Research Integrity

Months after deleting controversial lists of “predatory” journals and publishers, the librarian behind them still faces anonymous harassment online.

Bret Weinstein is a biology professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., who supported Bernie Sanders, admiringly retweets Glenn Greenwald and was an outspoken supporter of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Jerich Alcantara, a 22-year-old student, decided to perform a makeshift graduation after the subway train's emergency break was pulled and he missed his actual ceremony.

Large numbers of young people from poorer backgrounds in England are being deterred from applying to university because of fear of incurring student loan debts, a major study has revealed.

Most former college students say they would change either their major, college attended or credential pursued if they could do it all over again, survey finds.

The University of Arizona is branching out across the globe to offer more of its degrees on more foreign campuses.

Low-income public, parochial and charter high school students in Boston who graduate in 2017 will be able to earn a bachelor’s degree without having to pay tuition and mandatory fees under a pilot program announced yesterday.

Not every student walking away with a liberal arts degree from the University of Utah -- or any other institution, for that matter...