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Opening up the canon is essential for a discipline that struggles with diversity, claims author 

Faculty group’s first boycott order in decade affirms pro-Israel interference, but president Meric Gertler pushes back

Book sets out to challenge the simplistic and divisive thinking to be found in disciplines as diverse as economics and literary studies

With suggestion that academia profits from ‘slave labour’, senators back new threat to research ties

Trudeau backs spending despite deep deficit, yet still disappoints academic researchers

Politicians emphasising jobs while students want impact, Eric Barron tells THE summit

Advocates of healing find challenge in predecessors with Confederate sentiments

Focusing on sustainable development is not an original strategy for universities in 2021, but if anything, that only increases the value of adopting the SDGs, says Patrick Deane

US professors often extend off-campus invites, but generally without official guidelines

University tries to allay fears that reporting mental health issues could result in students being barred from campus

Centres of invention such as Silicon Valley ‘a model for burgeoning inequality’, summit hears

Senators warm to massive federal funding hike, but with greater share for non-elite institutions