From Canada to the United Kingdom to Japan, heat waves exacerbated by climate change have swept across the globe this summer, leaving a trail of death.

Roxanne Ready plunged into fall classes at the University of Maryland with the enthusiasm typical of a graduate student who wants to switch careers. She also has a bit of extra motivation.

More than a dozen Yale Law School professors canceled or rescheduled classes on Monday because of the Judge Brett Kavanaugh hearing.

Libraries worry that they could be caught up in a drive to force platforms like YouTube to share their profits with creators

Did faculty members encourage female applicants for his clerkships to appear like models?

Scrabble players will now be able to use words such as "OK" and "ew" after US dictionary company Merriam-Webster announced it was adding 300 new words in the latest edition of the game's dictionary.

Every other year we release our State of the Profession report, albeit a little bit later than usual this time around.

Business students at the University of Central Florida agitate for alternatives to a model that heavily shifts their learning time to outside the classroom and reduces exposure to instructors. Administrators say their approach is educationally sound.

A new policy at Southern New Hampshire University asks student organizations to share login information, including passwords, to social media accounts. But university officials have made conflicting statements regarding whether or not the new procedure is mandatory.

Seattle University says it will become the first university in Washington state to completely divest its endowment from fossil fuels.