North America

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse chancellor discusses the importance of role models for students, his approach to hiring top staff and how he has stayed in the role for 15 years

Education and labour expert from Columbia and Princeton promises new focus on helping students compare institutions

Peer-reviewed open access entry aims to unite field burdened by outside political turmoil and internal disagreements over academic norms

Academics urged to be more present while teaching to foster better learning environments

Businessman whose daughter won Georgetown admission after large donation successfully portrays his action as normal practice

After years of crude attacks on individual faculty and curriculum, Florida’s ambitious partisan governor identifies more palatable and enduring form of deep academic restraint

Federal agents charged with patrolling university labs fret the open environment, not knowing sector’s practices well enough, auditor concludes

Leap into advanced cloud-based system doubles in single year, though big costs and complications still leave larger institutions on the sidelines

In fight to keep cities safe, some academics seen as harming urban poor by prioritising police and donors over community needs

In largest such use of criminal laws, dozens from University of New Hampshire – including witnesses who did not report – face prosecution after single hazing incident

Daniel Silber complains university was not giving staff being made redundant enough time to find a new role

Rather than repeating other institutions’ mistakes, universities should embrace established ‘modalities’ for collaborative online international learning – and appreciate it as more than a Covid stopgap