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shooting at rats when he fired a pellet gun near a synagogue on Yom Kippur has left the United States after his visa was revoked.

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.

The Chinese government said Friday that the Trump administration’s move to ban international students from Harvard would harm America’s international standing, as anxious students and parents overseas fretted over what would come next.

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

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.

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.

Dashiell Young-Saver, a statistics teacher at IDEA South Flores, has fueled massive jumps in passing rates with his innovative lesson plans

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.

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.

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

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

Harvard Law School is conducting a new justice study that will pay bail for select Bexar County inmates over the next several years.

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.

Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is headed to Harvard this fall as a teaching fellow at the both the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard T.

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.

Sleep is not a luxury. It’s critical for good health, especially heart health.

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.

With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue.

With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue: whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions.

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.

Native American activists at colleges are pushing their schools to do more to atone for past wrongs, much in the way states, cities and universities are weighing reparations for slavery and discrimination against Black people.

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.

With the holiday season upon us, experts say there should be an added focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Beth Frates with Harvard’s Medical School gives her advice on how we can keep ourselves healthy. Dr. Frates said exercise routines are usually the first things to go as we feel more stress. Dr. Frates said its also not a bad idea to ask for exercise-themed gifts as well, especially if you are looking to keep up with your healthy habits. Dr. Frates said to change your mentality going into the holiday season.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced Monday that international students, or nonimmigrant students within the United States, are prohibited from taking a full course of study through online classes. ICEs decision argues that visa requirements for students have always been strict and taking online-only courses has been prohibited. Additionally, even if international students elect to take in-person classes, there is no guarantee universities will be able to continue to offer them throughout the semester or year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to COVID-19, ICEs Student and Exchange Visitor Program instituted a temporary exemption regarding online courses for the spring and summer semesters. The policy permitted nonimmigrant students to take more online courses than normally permitted by federal regulation to maintain their nonimmigrant status during the COVID-19 emergency.

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.

SAN ANTONIO – It’s been an interesting school year for students in San Antonio -- especially graduating seniors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Kaylee Burgess is a senior at Taft High School and she said she is excited about heading to Harvard in the fall. It’s super exciting,” said Burgess. “It was really exciting to be able to tell everyone, so my mom cried, my closest teachers, they also cried,” said Burgess. “They were super happy for me.”“Kaylee is a very bright student, but she’s a very humble person as well,” said Taft High School Principal Marti Cortinas-Fernandez.

Great Graduates 2020: Kaylee BurgessPublished: May 18, 2020, 3:37 pmKaylee Burgess is a senior at Taft High School and she said she is excited about heading to Harvard in the fall.