The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is aggressively funding efforts to support new forms of academic publishing...

On the eve of an education summit in Mobile today, Alabama officials released data Monday indicating that the 32 percent of state college students who graduated from public schools last year needed to take at least one remedial class.

A big hole in the ground discovered near a venue for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto has stumped authorities looking into it.

Sea levels along the northeast coast of the US rose by record levels during 2009-2010, a study has found.

All around the world, we see that environmental degradation and poverty go hand in hand — as do sustainable land-use and wealth.

Is a professor sending out a late recommendation letter for a student as bad as one who commits academic misconduct or, say, sexually harasses a colleague?

Ten Wesleyan students and two visitors have been hospitalized, with at least two in critical condition, after overdosing over the weekend on the synthetic party drug MDMA, known as ecstasy or Molly...

In the last couple of years huge investments have been made in Montana's universities through private individuals and state agencies for specific job-training programs ...

The British economist Thomas Robert Malthus could not have expected his book An Essay on the Principle of Population published in 1798 would become a Bible for the family planning authority in China more than 200 years later.