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Research at undergraduate level engages students and helps keep the academic pipeline flowing

Former corporate finance analyst promises to help students negotiate campus aid awards in return for a cut

Equity challenges loom, but solidifying evidence of value brings academic stature to science of partnering with the public

Universities should ensure all students, including in sciences, can access ‘great humanities education’, Berkeley dean tells THE summit

President of Canadian institution admits mistake in moving quickly amid concern over sexual assaults on campus and nearby violence

Fearing for protester well-being, university’s president promises improvements in dormitory conditions to conclude uprising at prominent institution

While mocked as a cast of falsely aggrieved outcasts, planned private upstart raises fear of fundamental new avenue of well-resourced partisan attack on academia

After extended run of pandemic and political obstacles, Biden officials celebrate revival even as totals still lag pre-Covid highs

In the first of our new ‘talking leadership’ interview series, Rosa Ellis meets the Johns Hopkins University president to discuss how he is realigning the institution to educate students about democracy and encourage them to contest ideas

In first policy conference since Covid and Floyd, state higher education leaders told they may be harming racial progress more than aiding it

Paper also suggests higher performers in business schools received lower salary bump if climbing the departmental ladder

The problem – amid a general mood of satisfaction – may trace to unrealistic expectations, American Academy of Arts and Sciences says