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Two Democrats appear to have won eight-year terms on the University of Michigan Board of Regents.

City College of San Francisco got some rare, good financial news Tuesday as local voters approved a parcel tax to benefit the huge school of 86,000 students and state voters approved a tax increase measure for schools that will help steer the college away from bankruptcy.

New Mexicans on Tuesday approved the $119.4 million universities and colleges say they so desperately need to renovate their buildings, according to county data.

Worries about the cost of rebuilding a state battered by Hurricane Sandy did not scare New Jersey voters away from approving $750 million in borrowing for the state’s colleges and universities Tuesday.

Westminster College may lease natural gas rights for 340 acres of school-owned land, officials confirmed Tuesday.

Science in Motion reaches out to partner schools to help educate students

Former Chief Duane Czapiewski played a quiet role, but new Chief Eric Plummer is emphasizing outreach not just on campus but in the community as a whole.

The globes of Syracuse University’s Connective Corridor bike lane lights are like a baseball batter’s melon pitch down the middle: Waist-high and smashable. Vandals have been knocking them out.

The new campus of the Cornell University graduate school for technology is expected to transform Roosevelt Island from a sleepy bedroom community into a high-technology hothouse, and indeed, the plans to be formally unveiled for the campus on Monday bear little resemblance to anything that is there now.

Slightly more than 50 percent of Peoria School District 150 teachers held master's degrees in 2011, according to the latest school report card. At Dunlap Community Unit School District 323, the figure was 48.5 percent.