A Harvard visiting law professor from Brazil who told police he was shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked.

Cornell University has agreed to pay $60 million and accept the Trump administration’s interpretation of civil rights laws in order to restore federal funding and end investigations into the Ivy League school.

An increase in the tax on university endowments is creating financial challenges for the wealthiest U.S. colleges.

President Donald Trump's administration is freezing $108 million in research funding to Duke University as the federal government accuses it of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.

The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.

Far beyond Harvard University and its standoff with the Trump administration, Republican officials in several states have been pushing for changes at public universities.

President Donald Trump says he is going to double the tariff rate on steel from 25% to 50%.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration decision to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

Some of Harvard’s sports teams would be virtually wiped out by a Trump administration decision that would make the Ivy League school ineligible for international student visas.

The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.

As Congress looks to slash spending and raise revenue for President Donald Trump’s tax bill, Republicans have turned attention to the huge endowments amassed by the country’s wealthiest colleges.

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In most school districts, Pre-K is only offered to families who meet certain requirements. Spring ISD however, believes it doesn’t matter what’s happening at home, every single student deserves a high-quality education.

Harmoni Turner is The Associated Press women's college basketball player of the week.

Starting in the 2025-26 academic year, undergraduate tuition will be free for students from families earning $200,000 or less annually

Congratulations to the 12 teams left in the chase for the women’s Division I national championship.

The Ivy League has announced its football programs will compete in the FCS playoffs beginning next season.

A daring rescue, a loving shelter and a plane flight, gave two dogs their fur-ever home

The two Dartmouth players working to unionize their basketball team say other athletes have been reaching out to see if they can join the effort.

Over five hours at a congressional hearing, lawmakers pressed the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT on the topic of antisemitism.

Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism.

The university presidents called before last week’s congressional hearing on antisemitism had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT were all women who were relatively new in their positions.

As lawmakers and donors push for the ouster of Harvard President Claudine Gay, hundreds of faculty members are urging the university to keep her in command and resist “outside forces” that they view as a threat to the university’s independence.

The presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they are taking steps to combat antisemitism — and Islamophobia — on campus since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.

There’s one college football conference sitting out the reshuffling going on among its big-money brethren: The Ivy League will start the season with the same eight members it has had since it formed in 1956.

Coach Sarah Aguilar brings back committed athletes Taylor Larkin (Harvard) in the middle and Aspen Maxwell (Missouri) on the outside. Larkin had 100 blocks and Maxwell Kamiryn Edmonds and Angelica Medina will also provide some offense, while Anika Frausto will be the setter. Medina led the team in kills with 256.

A civil rights legal group is challenging legacy admissions at Harvard University, saying the practice discriminates against students of color by giving an unfair boost to the mostly white children of alumni.

In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni.

A divided Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.

The ruling is the culmination of a decades-long effort to end the consideration of race in admissions.

His candidacy could impact who eventually is elected president in 2024.

Members of a macabre theft ring swiped human remains from the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston and sold the body parts to a nationwide network of buyers, officials said Wednesday.

Two-time Academy Award winning actor Tom Hanks has been named the principal speaker at Harvard’s commencement on May 25.

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority are questioning the continued use of affirmative action in higher education.

Three Americans are among winners of this year’s Balzan Prize.

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions.

Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is getting a different title: professor.

Attorney General Merrick Garland told Harvard graduates Sunday that their generation has been asked to show “an impossible kind of resilience” after yet another mass shooting at another school.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson says that if confirmed to the Supreme Court she’d sit out an affirmative action lawsuit over Harvard’s admission policies because she sits on the board of her college alma mater.

Kathy Delaney-Smith is retiring after 40 years as Harvard's women's basketball coach.

When Ketanji Brown Jackson’s younger daughter was 11, she drafted a letter to President Barack Obama suggesting her federal-judge mom for a vacancy on the Supreme Court.

Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham say it'd be good if the person named to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer doesn’t have an Ivy League degree.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer’s retirement gives President Joe Biden a chance to make his first nomination to the high court.

A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial privacy method on the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts.

The consequences that come with deforestation affect everything from nutrition to infections.

FILE - In this June 17, 1999, file photo, Harvard professor Ezra Vogel gestures while speaking during his luncheon speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. Vogel, a leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards, died Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. – A leading U.S. scholar on East Asia whose biography of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping won acclaim and awards has died. Vogel died Sunday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from complications after surgery, said his son, Steven Vogel. Vogel is survived by his wife of 41 years, Charlotte Ikels; son David Vogel of Cambridge; son Steven Vogel of Berkeley, California; daughter Eve Vogel of Amherst, Massachusetts; a sister, Fay Bussgang, of Dedham, Massachusetts; and five grandchildren.

BOWIE, Maryland (CNN) -- A college graduate from Maryland has been admitted to Harvard Law after continued adversity nearly made him abandon school altogether. Today, Rehan is not only a college graduate, but is heading to Harvard Law School this fall. Despite his fractured home life, Rehan found some solace in athletics and trained in martial arts and boxing. Two years into his successful matriculation at Bowie State University, Rehan transferred to University of Maryland, where he graduated in 2018. Rehan will begin classes online at Harvard Law School this fall.

The Ivy League has canceled all fall sports because of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)The Ivy League on Wednesday became the first Division I conference to say it will not play sports this fall because of the coronavirus pandemic, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The league left open the possibility of moving some seasons to the spring if the outbreak is better controlled by then. The decision was described to the AP by a person speaking on the condition of anonymity in advance of the official announcement. The Ivy decision affects not just football but everything before Jan. 1, including soccer, field hockey, volleyball and cross country, as well as the nonconference portion of the basketball season.