The tropics lost 29.4 million acres of tree cover in 2019, according to data from the University of Maryland, released recently on Global Forest Watch.

Caltech suspends requirement for two years while University of Washington commits to long-term shift in entry criteria

Some of the country’s most prestigious universities may return to in-person exams following newspaper report

Cornell, Dartmouth,Columbia, and UPenn suspended their standardized testing requirements for students applying in the 2020-21 school year.

A federal judge in Washington State has blocked the Education Department's rule limiting which college students are eligible for emergency grants but left in place a ban on undocumented students getting the aid.

As record numbers of Americans lose their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic, Kathleen Perlmutter has been desperately trying to turn out enough graduates to fill a critical shortage of workers.

Google has explained why search results information about Sir Winston Churchill was missing a photograph for several weeks.

Amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests, riots, looting, and calls to defund the police, a Harvard economist has found that proactive policing saves black lives.

Colleges all over the country are adopting similar language, comparing the “racism” virus to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Scholars raise concerns about teaching on Zoom after it acceded to Chinese government demands to shut down activists' accounts. Zoom says it will develop technology to block users by geography.