After helping nearly 1,000 families find affordable housing, Mesa native and activist Teresa Brice-Heames is about to live her Ivy League dream.

Ray Leone has resigned his position as head coach of the Arizona State University women’s soccer program to accept the same position at Harvard University, Vice President for University Athletics Lisa Love announced Thursday.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Saying he has "lived a blessed time," Sen. Edward Kennedy smiled broadly and flashed a thumbs up as he accepted an honorary degree Monday from his alma mater during a rare special convocation at Harvard University.

NEW YORK - Rarely has an author succeeded, then failed, so quickly as Kaavya Viswanathan, the Harvard University sophomore who acknowledged lifting material for her debut novel, "How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life."

Harvard University is the country's oldest, wealthiest and most selective university. Now it's back on top of the U.S. News & World Report college rankings, claiming sole possession of the No. 1 spot for the first time in 12 years.

Harvard admissions officials read every one of the 23,000 application essays they receive each year.

Arizona’s three state universities rank in the bottom half of 610 undergraduate programs evaluated, according to Forbes magazine and the Center for College Affordability and Productivity.

Arizona State University wants to make wholesale changes to the curriculum established for undergraduates in the late 1980s, in particular to general studies courses praised for broadening minds but disliked by students who say they are irrelevant to their majors.

April 4, 2005

In January, a $1.7 billion deficit was ready to swallow Arizona. By mid March, it grew to $1.9 billion. Yet the Republican-dominated Legislature approved HB2211, known as the Higher Education Budget Reconciliation Bill, to spend $1 billion in construction and other capitol projects at Arizona’s three main universities.

When those college tuition bills come in, be prepared for sticker shock.

In a most peculiar attack launched by Mitt Romney against President Obama, Romney accused Obama of being at Harvard too long. Apparently, Mitt meant to show that Barack Obama is out of touch with mainstream Americans. But wait! Isn’t Mitt also a Harvard alum?

BOSTON -- Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University.

Local teens: You too can be a Harvard-bound blonde!

Arizona State University has recruited a renowned expert in the field of medical information technology to head its Department of Biomedical Informatics.

A former Harvard professor has been named president of the Arizona State University Foundation. Ira A. Jackson, a senior fellow at Harvard University and a former bank executive, will replace Lonnie Ostrom in January, ASU announced Tuesday.

December 22, 2004

LOS ANGELES - Quincy Jones' stockpile of awards is about to grow higher - he's been named "Mentor of the Year," by Harvard University's School of Public Health.

Shortly after becoming Dean of Harvard Law School, Elena Kagan kicked the military out of the school's recruitment office while our troops were putting their lives on the line in two wars overseas. Now that President Obama has nominated Ms. Kagan to the Supreme Court, her actions at Harvard must be closely examined.

Cardon Children's Medical Center recently named Dr. Steve Narang as the new chief medical officer. Narang was previously in Baton Rouge, La., where he was medical director for the pediatric graduate medical education program at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.