North America

Thinktanks join forces to warn ‘last-dollar’ approach leaves low-income students unable to afford daily essentials

Conservative anger at initiatives to make campuses more inclusive to minority students is misplaced, say Kevin Singer, Laura Dahl, Matthew J. Mayhew and Alyssa N. Rockenbach

For second straight year, Republican-led Congress defies President Trump to hike federal funding for universities and students

Student protests at Mexico’s largest institution turn violent after ‘shock groups’ sent by rogue authorities

University of Minnesota says 50 per cent outbound mobility goal ‘outgrew its usefulness’

Nobel laureate warns of greater inequality and ‘new era of fascism’ if AI impact on work not ‘managed’

Analysis shows thousands of researchers publish the equivalent of one paper every five days, but their involvement is often limited

Study challenges the idea that it is primarily parenthood that hinders women’s careers – but in Germany, the picture is very different

Congress remains too divided to tackle crisis

Author of Academically Adrift says university haters have ‘grossly distorted’ his seminal study

Government accused of making universities ‘a safer place to commit assault’, but others say changes will offer better support for victims

Universities in the US are dealing with an unprecedented number of sexual violence complaints and greater scrutiny of the legal processes that follow, writes Emily Mack