A Northwestern University student penned a letter to the school newspaper last Sunday in defense of the Student Senate’s decision to block a nominee for student government because he is a “heterosexual white male.”

Teaching creationism is like denying the Holocaust, a prominent evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago (UC) told a local Indiana newspaper earlier this week.

A professor of music at a public school in New York City responded to online criticism with a humorous video in which he told students their parents should have “slapped them around” when they were children.

A group of legislators in Oregon are pushing a bill that would force state universities and colleges for the first time to collect information on students’ sexuality.

The list of keynote commencement speakers at Ivy League institutions for 2013 does not include a single conservative, a recent study authored by the conservative Young America’s Foundation (YAF) found.

Staff at a public school in Florida apparently led a sex workshop last month in which students were instructed on how to sculpt replica genitals out of Play-doh.

House minority leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Cali.) told graduates at the University of California – Davis law school on Friday that any cuts in spending to education would actually lead to an increase in the federal deficit.

Many institutions of higher learning are taking a wrong turn in embracing calls for divestment from the fossil fuel industry.

A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University was derailed last Wednesday over accusations that his status as a white heterosexual male would make it impossible for him to perform the position’s duties.

The faculty union at the University of Rhode Island (URI) is opposing several resolutions which would allow campus police to carry firearms.