Ontario’s hopes for performance-based funding seen as optimistic US experience suggests budget shift has little impact on colleges’ results By Paul Basken 12 May
Harvard expels professor after decades of sexual harassment University promises study of how former vice-provost’s behaviour persisted for so long By Paul Basken 9 May
US House moves to boost education and research spending Initial moves on 2020 budget suggest another reversal of Trump priorities By Paul Basken 9 May
Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’ Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’ By Rachael Pells 8 May
Blackface row opens debate over librarians’ academic freedom Doane University librarian suspended in row over display By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 7 May
Baby boomers back on campus as US universities surf silver wave Retirees are being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students. Jon Marcus reports By Jon Marcus 7 May
US judge protects foreign students over visa mistakes Trump policy expanding long-term bans is set aside and is likely to be ended By Paul Basken 7 May
US universities fear wider application of new endowment tax Elite institutions making last-ditch bid to block multimillion-dollar levy By Paul Basken 4 May
Trump adviser seeks limits to crackdown on foreign scientists Kelvin Droegemeier tells researchers that openness is ‘part of our value system’ By Paul Basken 3 May
Chinese family ‘paid $6.5 million to get daughter into Stanford’ Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly By Paul Basken 2 May
Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’ By Anna McKie 2 May
Stanford University Press gets funding reprieve after protests Hundreds of professors had signed petition opposing scrapping of annual subsidy from parent institution By Paul Basken 1 May
