North America

Latin American leader aims to hire 100 elite faculty, drawing needed talent to developing world

Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare

Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt

While the results may be difficult to hear, they might provide some pointers on how universities can improve their image, says Zachary Michael Jack

World’s biggest bibliographic database claims MetaDoor is ‘misappropriating’ its catalogue to drive it out of business

Administration moves to reverse Trump mandate for in-person hearings and expand protections to transgender students

Two-thirds of institutions responding to IIE survey report increase in interest

Lab-by-lab approach determining who gets credit and who doesn’t must be replaced by more comprehensive policies, researchers say

Once lauded as engines of social mobility, American universities are increasingly perceived as widening social and economic injustices. Matthew Reisz speaks to two academics whose new book lays bare the extent of the problem and the potential solutions

In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels

Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research

Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars