Trump administration says it can cut billions by scaling back reimbursement for overhead costs. University groups say that funding is essential to conducting research.

A US college has apologised for posting photos of what is and isn't appropriate to wear to its prom.

U Louisiana Monroe says it's getting rid of two major natural history collections to make way for a sports field. Outrage ensues.

For Westminster Choir College, the music will live on -- but precisely where is still to be determined.

Students and staff at the Central European University (CEU) in Hungary are protesting against what they say are government plans to close it down

Liberal campus criticisms of the Trump administration and broader political environment are a dime a dozen. So a new denunciation of promised deportations and other rhetoric from faculty members at Christian and Catholic colleges stands out.

A new Europe-wide code of research conduct has ordered academics and journals to treat negative experimental results as being equally worthy of publication as positive ones.

A House higher education plan released Monday would cut $164 million from state colleges and universities, including $5 million for the University of Central Florida that is part of a new program designed to help improve its ranking nationwide.

Study suggests scientific work force is aging -- and will get even older, even as younger scientists hang on the sidelines in hopes of jobs and face longer odds of landing grants.

University professors in France are paid far less than their peers in other countries as state bureaucracy prevents top researchers from negotiating higher salaries, new analysis suggests.