MIT Media Lab director quits over ‘hidden ties to Epstein’ Joi Ito alleged to have made extensive efforts to hide millions of dollars donated by sexual abuser Paul Basken 9月 9日
Canadian universities earning more from fees than public purse Domestic students benefit for now as foreign classmates cancel out provincial budget cuts Paul Basken 9月 9日
Michigan State accepts federal fine and fires provost over Nassar case University to pay $4.5 million (£3.7 million) and pursue further actions against culpable officials Paul Basken 9月 6日
US Student Success Forum: universities urged to work with schools on access Wealthier institutions urged to take lead on improving minority representation Paul Basken 9月 6日
Three failed replication attempts but no retraction for HIV study Science’s decision sparks debate about how journals should respond to concerns about reproducibility Jack Grove 9月 6日
Many universities ‘going backwards’ on gender equality in science Decline in female representation reported at four in 10 institutions covered by study Anna McKie 9月 6日
Students need to learn how trolls and bots stir up online divisions Critical thinking is not enough. Students must be taught dynamics of social media, say Darren Linvill and Patrick Warren Darren Linvill 9月 5日
Making political interventions more effective Lennard Davis wonders whether activist academics have wrongly prioritised exuberantly bad behaviour over the hard graft of working for real change Lennard Davis 9月 5日
WSJ/THE US College Rankings 2020: Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins rise Harvard tops student-focused ranking for fourth consecutive year Ellie Bothwell 9月 5日
Tenure under threat as US university mulls department closures Financially troubled institution suggests senior faculty vulnerable Paul Basken 9月 4日
Slavery reparations must deliver racial redress Universities must re-examine their efforts to atone for slavery by listening to those affected by racial injustice, says Linda Mann Linda J. Mann 9月 3日
US universities ‘should have blocked’ Jeffrey Epstein donations Institutions largely silent over how they allowed their researchers to take financier's funding, despite his interest in eugenics and 2008 sex conviction David Matthews 9月 2日