PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Pennsylvania university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the...

MONACO (AP) — The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — As protests resounded outside, the University of California Board of Regents approved a fee 32 percent fee increase for students attending the...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — As the nation's military academies try to recruit more minorities, they aren't getting much help from members of Congress from...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky's flagship public university gave the official heave-ho to tobacco on Thursday, touting the health benefits of a smoke-free policy covering all of its...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Intrepid Ohio State University researchers have learned students don't just party in a campus lake during rituals before the annual Michigan game. They also potty...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California's public university system on Thursday agreed to fully reopen a troubled South Los Angeles hospital that was partially closed in 2007 after deadly lapses in...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 314,000 taxpayers made inaccurate claims for a popular tax credit that helps pay college expenses, getting $532 million they weren't entitled to receive, a...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Economic reality may be cooling the enthusiasm of U.S. college students to study abroad.

A survey in September by The Forum on Education Abroad has found...

SEATTLE (AP) — Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hundreds of protesters chanted, marched and took over a building Thursday on the UCLA campus, where University of California regents were scheduled to vote on a 32...

DICKINSON, N.D. (AP) — Authorities say final autopsy results show that three college softball players who drowned when their sport utility vehicle went into a North Dakota pond had not...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — The largest university in the tobacco-growing state of Kentucky and home to a tobacco research center is banning all smoking on campus.

The University of...

BOSTON (AP) — First Marblehead Corp., which packages students loans for sale to investors, said on Thursday that a bank subsidiary that it's considering selling has completed the sale of...

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State plans to adjust its season-ticket pricing guidelines in 2011 to account for where people sit in Beaver Stadium.

Some fans might have to...

After widespread and prolonged student protests at U.S. universities, sports apparel maker Russell Athletic says it will open a new factory in Honduras and rehire ousted union workers as...

MONACO (AP) — Gender tests on South African world champion Caster Semenya have not been completed, the International Association of Athletics Federations said Wednesday.

The IAAF...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The head of the Black Coaches and Administrators group called Wednesday for more involvement by college presidents in hiring football coaches, a move he said would lead...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — A somber candlelight vigil marked by both silence and song commemorated the 10th anniversary early Wednesday of a bonfire...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Fresh from an appearance on one of Brazil's most popular TV shows, the young woman whose short, pink dress got her kicked out of college is...