A House Divided
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign definitively told Steven Salaita this month that he was out of a job there.
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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign definitively told Steven Salaita this month that he was out of a job there.
You’ve probably heard the old stereotypes about professors in their ivory tower lecturing about Kafka while clad in a tweed jacket.
The University of California voted on Friday to maintain its investments in fossil fuels, frustrating a student-led effort to divest its portfolio in oil, natural gas and coal.
Hong Kong’s universities and colleges – almost 20 of them – are gearing up for a student organised pro-democracy boycott of classes due to begin on 22 September and to last at least a week, with academics supporting the student movement.
On what was once farmland on the edge of Cambridge, diggers are moving in to create a new academic quarter for the historic university city.
When Florida lawmakers made it harder to earn a Bright Futures scholarship, they celebrated the cost savings.
Despite concerns that California's new Middle Class Scholarship program awards would have to be reduced because of high demand, officials said Monday that there was plenty of money to fully fund all the eligible applicants.
The Barack Obama Foundation on Monday announced four locations as potential sites for President Obama's presidential library and museum.
A new coalition of 11 large public research universities plans to work together on techniques to improve their graduation rates, particularly for lower-income students.
After downing a double dose of NyQuil to fight a cold, the young woman woke in a man’s dormitory room with a vague memory of someone being on top of her, but no recollection of sexual contact.