Tennessee offers to rehire engineer cleared in China trial Anming Hu was acquitted in court prosecution under Trump crackdown on academic scientists with China ties By Paul Basken 19 October
US universities ponder massive debt to Native Americans In year since land-grant institutions learned they were funded by theft, serious conversations have barely begun By Paul Basken 19 October
US postgraduate enrolment grows despite pandemic disruption Increased domestic recruitment, particularly among minorities, offsets overseas decline By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed 18 October
Georgia state universities weaken tenure protections Move bolsters fears of political attacks on US higher education and prompts AAUP to consider boycott By Paul Basken 14 October
Is Classics’ empire in terminal decline? With contention about diversity adding to concerns about employability and declining student numbers, does Classics in the US need rebranding or rethinking? Paul Basken reports By Paul Basken 14 October
Charges dropped for first time in US admissions scandal Just ahead of trial, former Wake Forest volleyball coach gets reprieve in return for repaying alleged bribe By Paul Basken 13 October
US and Canadian students protest over sexual assaults Anger growing amid greater awareness and sense of administration failures By Paul Basken 13 October
US colleges hit by wave of student labour unionisation Demands pushed by pandemic fears, labour shortages, awakened student athletes and Biden encouragement By Paul Basken 12 October
Northwestern picks Rebecca Blank as president Current chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison will be private institution’s first female leader By Paul Basken 11 October
Nobel prize in economics honours natural experimentation Card, Angrist and Imbens of Berkeley, MIT and Stanford take honour for social investigations By Paul Basken 11 October
US universities take closer look at faculty distractions China crackdown remains controversial, but institutions advised of broader reasons to keep tabs on scientists By Paul Basken 10 October
Parents guilty in first ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions trial Case comes after most charged in the case already pleaded guilty, leaving USC and Wake Forest coaches next for trial By Paul Basken 8 October
