Kathleen Casey, an assistant professor of history at Virginia Wesleyan College, thought teaching a course on the history of American leisure time – what she called a “history of fun” ...

A wave of union organizing at college campuses across California and the nation in recent months is being fueled by part-time faculty who are increasingly discontented over working conditions and a lack of job security.

The University of Oxford gives out more first and upper-second class degrees than the norm.

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The University of Nebraska has been dinged by the state auditor for allowing employees to spend nearly $96,000 on 20 first-class flights around the world ...

The National Labor Relations Board issued a ruling last week that could clear the way for much more unionization of faculty members at private colleges and universities.

Less than half of students who enroll in Utah’s colleges and universities finish bachelor’s degrees within six years ...

Science funders across Europe need to come together to invest in fundamental interdisciplinary research that can address global challenges like climate change because of the lack of European Union support for such programmes.

The proportion of UK research classed as world-leading has been given a major boost by the inclusion of impact in the 2014 research excellence framework.

Marquette University has suspended with pay and barred from campus the tenured professor who criticized a graduate student instructor in a personal blog, pending an investigation into his conduct.