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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.

A graduate student discovers that a 19th-century novelist who has been hailed as an early black female writer was actually white.

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

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

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

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

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

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