Michigan State accepts federal fine and fires provost over Nassar case University to pay $4.5 million (£3.7 million) and pursue further actions against culpable officials By Paul Basken 6 September
US Student Success Forum: universities urged to work with schools on access Wealthier institutions urged to take lead on improving minority representation By Paul Basken 6 September
Three failed replication attempts but no retraction for HIV study Science’s decision sparks debate about how journals should respond to concerns about reproducibility By Jack Grove 6 September
Many universities ‘going backwards’ on gender equality in science Decline in female representation reported at four in 10 institutions covered by study By Anna McKie 6 September
Students need to learn how trolls and bots stir up online divisions Critical thinking is not enough. Students must be taught dynamics of social media, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren By Darren Linvill 5 September
Making political interventions more effective Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change By Lennard Davis 5 September
WSJ/THE US College Rankings 2020: Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins rise Harvard tops student-focused ranking for fourth consecutive year By Ellie Bothwell 5 September
Tenure under threat as US university mulls department closures Financially troubled institution suggests senior faculty vulnerable By Paul Basken 4 September
Slavery reparations must deliver racial redress Universities must re-examine their efforts to atone for slavery by listening to those affected by racial injustice, says Linda Mann By Linda J. Mann 3 September
US universities ‘should have blocked’ Jeffrey Epstein donations Institutions largely silent over how they allowed their researchers to take financier's funding, despite his interest in eugenics and 2008 sex conviction By David Matthews 2 September
California’s Elsevier break strengthens other campuses’ hands Universities report winning more conciliatory terms on open access question in their own negotiations with publisher By Paul Basken 2 September
US bars Harvard student ‘over friends’ social media posts’ Palestinian applicant says he has not commented on politics himself By Paul Basken 28 August