Endorsement of new partnership by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin may be reaction to US cold shoulder

Congress is paying increasing attention to risk of foreign actors stealing American research. Two new bills take very different approaches to addressing the threat -- and universities much prefer one approach over the other.

A Dutch engineering university is taking radical action to increase its share of female academics by opening job vacancies to women only.ender

Swarthmore College offers a "Queering God" course, which focuses on, among other things, God's gender identity.

Recent cases of persecuting Chinese and Chinese American scientists for alleged China ties show that the Red Scare has been spreading fast in US institutions of higher education, places that should be totally free of the government's political interference.

Leah Pearlman draws comics about ideas like "emotional literacy" and "self-love". When she began posting them on Facebook, her friends responded warmly.

China is now on a par with the West in its capacity to service the higher education needs of its own population, a review suggests.

Previously relegated to the political fringes, calls for broad student debt cancellation are now being taken seriously -- a sign of how new energy is being devoted to challenges for current student borrowers.

Former students at ITT Technical Institute will not have to pay $168 million they still owe on private loans from an affiliated lender to attend the now-defunct for-profit college, under a U.S. regulatory settlement announced on Friday.

A June survey shows just how much less college students value the Second Amendment than other constitutional liberties.