Graduate students

Under new Ohio law, some public universities require new professors to sign statement about possible links to terrorist groups.

As NASA has moved money away from science, some researchers have lost money and young talent virtually overnight.

CUNY program trains grad students to teach at 2-year colleges -- where the job market favors those who understand the mission.

Graduate students resume teaching duties, failing to win recognition of their union.

Experts consider why a strike failed to get NYU to recognize a union -- even as graduate students seek new strategies to win collective bargaining.

Enrollment increase is led by gains for women and African Americans.

The phrase "graduate student life" has traditionally been something of an oxymoron in higher education. Doctoral students train diligently, often siloed in their academic departments, spend most of their non-classroom hours either teaching or studying solo in the library, and typically live in off-campus apartments. While many institutions have improved how they pay and prepare graduate students in recent years, fewer have paid significant attention to their lives as people, too.

Forget Ask.com. If you have a question about American graduate education over the last 100 years, you can probably find the answer in a data-heavy report released this week by the National Science Foundation.

Data document relationship between finishing graduate school, publishing, getting a job -- and being married.

Post-9/11 decline finally appears to be reversed, due in large part to big increases from China and India.