Ithaca College President Shirley M. Collado is a founding member of a new group of higher education leaders dedicated to improving how colleges and universities address immigration-related matters affecting their campuses.

For academics, the festive season has long presented an opportunity for some more light-hearted research into a variety of topics.

Humanoid robot completes course in philosophy of love in what is purportedly a world first.

Compared with the planet's other large tracts of tropical forests, the forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have remained relatively intact — although that soon may be changing.

College enrollments in the U.S. decline for a sixth straight year -- although at a slower rate -- while the bachelor's degree got more popular.

Cambridge startup is taking college guidance online, offering high school students and their parents a cheaper alternative to private college counseling.

A loophole in carbon-accounting rules is spurring a boom in burning wood pellets in European power plants.

Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male

An animatronic version of Donald Trump created by Disney's roboticists has attracted ridicule.