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Alumnus and academic lifer to leave next summer amid rash of turnover among US university leaders in Covid’s aftermath

While lawmakers get attention for criticising tenure and working to weaken it, campus hiring practices seen doing more damage

The Princeton University president discusses the oversimplification of the free speech debate and his personal journey of discovery kicked off by his son’s school project 

New university finds early success with online teaching in local environments worldwide, but fears higher education may already have lost the public

众多针对线上教学投诉的处理呈现出对高校权利的尊重，除了那些一直以来就不重视线上教学的高校

University’s near-complete accounting reported to find 7,000 Native Americans and 19 victims of slavery among bodies used in often-racist research

After fighting to unite troubled public campuses in two different states, Dannel Malloy has sympathy for affected faculty but won’t let it stop him

Analysis of 20 million papers suggests global science powerhouses are increasingly benefiting from biased citation practices

The Canadian botanist who discovered the ‘wisdom of trees’ reflects on the growing enthusiasm for her work and why scientists should get emotional about their research

While a weaker measure than the autumn semester, data amplify concerns that higher education’s loss of value may reflect more than just Covid

Joshua Katz dismissed after renewed probe of sexual misconduct case

From both the NIH and a leading philanthropist, nation’s researchers get new hope for cutting the huge waste of time and effort in bureaucratic reviews