US military failing to shift funding to minority universities Pentagon fell short on promises to help HBCUs compete for research grants, though institutions see new motivation from foreign tensions Paul Basken 5月 6日
Are corporate interests taking over US higher education? Just as campaigns to promote societal benefit show strength, activists admit setbacks in wider battleground for basic academic freedom Paul Basken 5月 5日
End of affirmative action badly hit medical student diversity Minority public medical school enrolment seen down by more than third in five years in US states that banned racial considerations in admissions Paul Basken 5月 4日
China crackdown ‘hit US scientists’ research quality’ US project leaders with history of China collaboration ‘saw dent to citations’ Simon Baker 5月 4日
US government let Facebook take personal student data Education Department admits data-diverting code in federal aid website, toughening politics for institutional performance monitoring Paul Basken 5月 3日
What Ukraine can teach US colleges about democracy Higher education is key to reassessing who we are as a nation and why we’re tolerating such extreme division and deception, says Vincent Rougeau Vincent Rougeau 5月 2日
US universities used recruitment tool ‘to target white students’ Naviance, available to nearly half of nation’s high school students, admits years of Caucasian filtering for campuses building candidate lists Paul Basken 4月 27日
Ryerson becoming Toronto Metropolitan University Canadian campus aims to trade reminder of indigenous abuses with branding that signals modern sophistication Paul Basken 4月 27日
Harvard pledges $100 million in slavery redress Three-year review details racism permeating history of top US institution, but some raise concern at too meagre a response Paul Basken 4月 27日
Innovation Summit: Los Angeles universities help city on sustainability University data expertise essential to ‘capacity building’ for city government on issues ranging from air quality to localising UN sustainability goals, THE summit hears John Morgan 4月 27日
