Gov. Matt Bevin has received intense scrutiny for his efforts to remake the university’s leadership. But the controversy that recently hamstrung the board has deeper roots than the governor’s actions.

Shane Mauss, a stand-up comic who likes picking professors’ brains, has become an unlikely but engaging science educator.

The humble computer protocol, developed by an upstart team of programmers at the University of Minnesota, paved the way for the online world of today, then quietly slipped back underground.

When the semester starts, on Wednesday, at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus, professors won’t be in class. That’s because the administration, amid contentious contract talks, has locked them out.

A study of more than 900 colleges by Blackboard hints at the potential of harnessing data from learning-management systems as "a real-time indicator of student engagement."

Analysts endorsed a measure, called relative citation ratio, that aims to reflect how experts assess the influence of a paper, not just how many people cite it.

Jacqueline Stevens has been asked to undergo an evaluation of her "fitness for duty" before returning to her position in political science. She says she's being punished for her outspokenness; a colleague says her presence makes him feel unsafe.

Teaching assistants weren’t the only ones celebrating the National Labor Relations Board’s ruling in the Columbia University graduate-unionization case.

The words mean different things to different people, and often they're not even called "trigger warnings." Whatever their name, here's what they look like in practice.

The NLRB’s decision in the Columbia University case will have a profound and unfortunate effect on private education as we know it.

Instead of disparaging students’ requests for safe spaces, professors should try joining them there.