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Officials at the University of California, Santa Cruz say dozens of protesters who were occupying the university's main administrative building have ended their protest.
The faculty union at Northern Iowa University has agreed to reopen its contract with the school.
People trying to fight through the economic downturn by earning college degrees may soon find them harder to afford in Nebraska.
The University of Montana is proposing a campus-wide ban on all forms of tobacco, though students and staff would have nearly two years to quit before it's enforced.
The Jackson State University Development Foundation, Inc., has broken ground on a multimillion-dollar construction project that will include luxury apartments and retail space.
The University of North Dakota's aerospace school has suspended training flights for one day after a series of landing and take-off mishaps at the Grand Forks airport.
Iraq's prime minister suspended classes and banned political activities at one of Baghdad's leading universities following student protests on campus, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
University of California students, professors and other employees rallied Thursday to protest deep budget cuts that have led to layoffs, furloughs, enrollment cuts, course reductions and higher fees.
One best-selling book advocating fresh, local foods is shaking up America's Dairyland.
Saudi Arabia inaugurated on Wednesday its first-ever fully integrated coed university, and its ruler declared the institution will be a "beacon of tolerance" in a world attacked by extremists.
University of California campus police on Wednesday handcuffed and removed about a dozen demonstrators who interrupted and refused to leave a UC Board of Regents meeting where officials pushed a plan for steep tuition increases.
Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.
Union employees at the University of California gave overwhelming approval to a vote of no confidence for President Mark Yudof and called for his removal from office.
Students reported for class Thursday at a suburban Detroit university hours after professors reached a tentative agreement that ended a weeklong strike.
Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it's not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding.
An investigation of German professors suspected of accepting bribes to advise doctoral candidates could last months, as prosecutors try to untangle the links between a bankrupt consulting firm and university instructors across the country.
University of California President Mark Yudof says steep budget cuts are ahead for the 10-campus system when federal stimulus money runs out next year.
One of Florida Atlantic University's largest donors says he can't fulfill a $16 million pledge to the school, blaming the tough economy. It had been the largest donation in the university's history.
A union that represents 22,000 California State University faculty members has agreed to take furloughs two days a month to help close a huge budget deficit at the 23-campus system, officials said Friday.
The University of Michigan says it's teaming up with Amazon.com to offer reprints of 400,000 rare and out-of-print books from its library that no longer are under copyright.
A $20 million research grant announced by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on Tuesday is the largest the medical school has received and, according to the UAMS chancellor, its most important.
The University of California's governing board on Thursday approved an emergency budget plan that will force tens of thousands of employees to take furloughs and pay cuts.
Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed a state commission to investigate what some have called questionable admissions practices at the state's largest public university.
A relative of a key figure in the state's corruption scandal got admitted to the University of Illinois despite sub-par credentials — after then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich put in a good word for him, The Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
UC regents approve 32 percent student fee increaseAs hundreds of students demonstrated outside, University of California leaders on Thursday voted to approve a 32 percent hike in undergraduate fees, arguing the increase is crucial because of the state's budget crisis.
The University of the South PacificThe University of the South Pacific, as one of two regional universities in the world, is supported by 12 Pacific Island Countries- Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Stop Financial Aid for Wealthy StudentsIn the space of several months in late 2007 and early 2008, Harvard, Yale and several other highly selective universities enriched their financial aid programs to guarantee that students from families well up the economic ladder would get sizable grants to attend their institutio …
A nation of sleepwalkers � The Dawn Blog » Blog ArchiveThe day after the terrible terrorist attack at Islamabad's Islamic University that took the lives of eight innocent students, certain TV news channels ran a footage of a dozen or so angered students of the university pelting stones.
Ancient and Modern - univ eersity education Peter Jones laments another step on the route to the day when university teachers will provide gratification not education. Elsewhere Plato took the view that the best way to select students for higher education was to be quite honest about the serious demands that it would make …
Schools shun Kindle, saying blind can't use itAmazon's Kindle can read books aloud, but if you're blind it can be difficult to turn that function on without help. Now two universities say they will shun the device until Amazon changes the setup.
19 year old student talked Emma Thompson out of support for child rapist Roman PolanskiUK Exeter Uni student: "We talked for 15 minutes and by the end she said she would get her name removed. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime."
Brazil student expelled after wearing mini-dressA Brazilian university expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students when she wore a short, pink dress to class, taking out newspaper ads Sunday to publicly accuse her of immorality.
Brains: the secret to better schools - thestar.comFrench neuroscientist Bruno della Chiesa met with his country's education minister in Paris to talk about the groundbreaking international movement to link the fields of teaching and brain science.
CSU Chancellor announces first step toward layoffs on Cal Coast NewsCalifornia State University Chancellor initiates layoffs
Duke University police officer charged in Alabama rapehe Duke University Police Department has suspended, with pay, an officer charged in a "bondage rape" in Alabama where he allegedly gagged and handcuffed a woman in his car before violating her.
College cutbacks make it harder to earn degreesDeep budget cuts are forcing colleges to lay off instructors and eliminate some classes, making it harder for students to get into the courses they need to earn their degree.
UCLA prof.: Suspect's mental health a concernLOS ANGELES - A UCLA professor said he told a university administrator 10 months ago of his concerns about the mental health of a student now accused of stabbing a fellow student in the throat in a chemistry lab.
5 men sought in Ohio bar shootout; no one hurtTOLEDO, Ohio - A wild shootout involving at least five gunmen sent patrons fleeing from a northwestern Ohio bar near the University of Toledo campus. No injuries were reported.
UCLA prof.: Suspect's mental health a concernA UCLA professor said he told a university administrator 10 months ago of his concerns about the mental health of a student now accused of stabbing a fellow student in the throat in a chemistry lab.
New Method Predicts Dropping Out Of UniversityResearchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the University of Jaén (UJA) are creating a statistical model to calculate the probability of university students dropping out and to help in the drawing up of strategic plans to reduce the number of students who give up their …
ARE YOU SICK AND TIRED OF LETTING HOSPITALS GET AWAY WITH DOING HARM TO YOURSELF OR DEATH TO A LOVED ONE WE WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT! AND AS IF THAT ALONE WAS NOT ENOUGH THEY ADD INSULT TO INJURY BY CHARGING YOUR INSURANCE COMPANY AND OR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT EXUBRANT AMOUNTS …
Swimming Upstream: The Life of a Conservative Professor in AcademiaI have been a faculty member at a major State University for 40 years. Several years after my arrival, I voted for George McGovern. Eight years later, I voted for Ronald Reagan.
BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | The 'first true scientist'By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.
BBC NEWS | Technology | 'Time telescope' could boost webResearchers have demonstrated a "time telescope" that could squeeze much more information into the data packets sent around the internet. Rather than focusing information-carrying light pulses in space, like a normal lens, it focuses them in time.
Prehistoric site found near StonehengeArchaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.
University Cracks Down On Dorm SexThere is a new crackdown at Tufts University, of the X-rated variety. The Medford college's new guest policy, revised from last year, now includes a section that bars students from "engaging in sexual activity while their roommate is present."
One professor's fight for due process Think it's hard to defend yourself in a he said, she said situation? Try he said, who said.
Creationists Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort Team-up to Attack Darwin on US College CampusesTalk about a back-to-school special! Watch out co-eds, 'cause this year, Kirk Cameron and his sidekick Ray Comfort are teaming up with Answers in Genesis (the pseudo-scientists who brought you the Creation Museum in Petersburg, KY) to convince you and your school chums that Dar …
BBC NEWS | Health | Proof mounts on restricted dietReported earlier in the summer from the BBC. A US research on restricted diet done on these rhesus monkeys who were observed over 2 decades.
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