higher education

Tioga County has much to be proud of, but certainly at or near the top of the list is Mansfield University (MU). This is the only university in the co...

Melanie C. Clabaugh, communications manager of Northwest Bank, has been named assistant vice president. Shawn Walker, senior vice president, chief mar...

CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. — Chautauqua Institution on Thursday announced the appointment of Emily F. Morris, Ph.D., as vice president of marketing and communic...

ST. BONAVENTURE — To Dr. Dennis DePerro, university presidents are snapshots in time of a much bigger story. They help to determine the direction, how...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Matt Damon shot to fame in the 1997 movie "Good Will Hunting" as a gifted janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The University of Vermont medical school is offering what is believed to be one of the nation's first full courses in the scien...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears torn over the use of race in college admissions and may not be ready to make a decision without more infor...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The growing political influence of Latinos could be slowed by a Supreme Court case over the constitutional requirement to make elect...

CHICAGO (AP) — The University of Chicago canceled all classes and activities scheduled for Monday on its main campus following an online threat of gun...

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Princeton University has agreed to look into the legacy of alumnus and former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson after a group of st...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that's 10 percent black in two years, it will li...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A recent groundswell of protests on college campuses over race, sexual misconduct and other social issues has some civil libertar...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-Ame...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Efforts are underway at the University of Missouri to address the racial tensions that led to demonstrations by students, a strik...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A video showing a photographer's clash with University of Missouri protesters who tried to block his access in a public section o...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in a cl...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The president of the University of Missouri system resigned Monday with the football team and others on campus in open revolt ove...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Racially charged incidents at the University of Missouri have led to numerous protests, a hunger strike by a graduate student and...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows...

BOSTON (AP) — Moshe Kai Cavalin has two college degrees, but he's too young to vote. He flies airplanes, but he's too young to drive a car alone. Life...