Ontario’s hopes for performance-based funding seen as optimistic US experience suggests budget shift has little impact on colleges’ results Paul Basken 5月 12日
Harvard expels professor after decades of sexual harassment University promises study of how former vice-provost’s behaviour persisted for so long Paul Basken 5月 9日
US House moves to boost education and research spending Initial moves on 2020 budget suggest another reversal of Trump priorities Paul Basken 5月 9日
Reviewers change their mind after hearing from ‘peers’ Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’ Rachael Pells 5月 8日
Blackface row opens debate over librarians’ academic freedom Doane University librarian suspended in row over display Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 5月 7日
Baby boomers back on campus as US universities surf silver wave Retirees are being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students. Jon Marcus reports Jon Marcus 5月 7日
US judge protects foreign students over visa mistakes Trump policy expanding long-term bans is set aside and is likely to be ended Paul Basken 5月 7日
US universities fear wider application of new endowment tax Elite institutions making last-ditch bid to block multimillion-dollar levy Paul Basken 5月 4日
Trump adviser seeks limits to crackdown on foreign scientists Kelvin Droegemeier tells researchers that openness is ‘part of our value system’ Paul Basken 5月 3日
Chinese family ‘paid $6.5 million to get daughter into Stanford’ Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly Paul Basken 5月 2日
Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’ Anna McKie 5月 2日
Stanford University Press gets funding reprieve after protests Hundreds of professors had signed petition opposing scrapping of annual subsidy from parent institution Paul Basken 5月 1日
