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Concluding that it was out of compliance with Title IX, institution agrees to keep men's and women's squads.

Reversing earlier decision, university will continue to offer American Sign Language for academic credit.

Meharry Medical College, U. of the Cumberlands, and Virginia State join AAUP's bad list. Southern Nazarene and Wingate get off it.

Money is tight in House spending plan for education programs and NIH, but panel reverses most cuts proposed by Bush administration.

Rockefeller University has announced a $100 million pledge from David Rockefeller, grandson of the university's founder.

Ohio State calls off dissertation defense amid criticism that faculty committee was set up to back questionable attacks on evolution.

Two groups that support basic research sponsor weeklong course to help young scientists navigate through their universities.

More than one-third of scientists in an anonymous survey admitted that they had committed some form of research misconduct in the last three years, according to a study reported today in the journal Nature. The president of Quincy College has sued the institution's Board of Governors, saying that it placed him on administrative leave because he refused to promote the brother of the board's chairwoman, The Patriot Ledger

The Georgia Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a state appeals court decision that shielded campus crime records collected by Mercer University from release under Georgia's open records law. The court's order is the end of the road for a lawsuit brought by a former student at the institution -- and supported by journalism organizations -- that had sought the release of records by the private institution.Kaplan, Inc.