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NYU, the first private institution to reach a contract with a T.A. union, may try to make that pact its last.

Support fell by more than 10 percent in 2003, to $14.3 billion, but education remained the top category for grants.

Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard's embattled president, apologized to faculty members Tuesday not only for his comments about women and science...

A report about physics suggests that women are leaving the field early, between high school and college.

Carnegie Mellon said the university never provided funds for a hateful speaker. But one of its research centers had pledged support.

A state university system's bid to help undergraduates finish in four years is expected to lead to a boom in "hybrid" distance education.

We asked university presses to tell us about authors under 40 publishing significant works. Our debut is a 24 year old who studied Oprah.