North America

While finding seats as university directors, minorities still lack teaching equity and questions remain over ‘check-box representation’

Admonishments from student leaders will ring louder than punishments for non-adherents, say Sheldon Jacobson and Janet Jokela

Jessica Krug, a ‘white Jewish child’ of suburban Kansas City, blames mental stress

Number of virus cases on campuses continues to spiral

New York University provost says sector approaches to diverse hiring can become ‘distasteful, racist and fetishistic’ exercises

‘Peripheral’ institutions can more easily ‘play on the world stage’ but most prestigious universities may be more likely to survive and thrive, THE summit hears

Dismissing plagiarism as a low-level academic misdemeanour ignores the potentially deadly consequences of letting cheating go unchecked, says David A. Sanders

Toronto president tells summit that ‘quality of city’ is crucial for university headhunting

University teaching will change as a result of the forced switch to online, but in-person interactions will still have enduring value, argues Rebecca Blank

Corporate funders suspected of fuelling idea of on-campus living for online courses, despite health concerns

Amazon’s and Netflix’s obsessive focus on using customer data to improve user experience has valuable lessons for universities, argues Mike O’Connor

Opponents seize momentum as pandemic leaves majority of US universities test-optional