Threatened scholars: online harassment risks academic freedom Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer By David Matthews 14 February
Universities must ensure that all students acquire ICT skills Evidence from Canada highlights the scale of the challenge in preparing 21st-century workers and citizens, say Ross Finnie, Arthur Sweetman and Richard Mueller By Ross Finnie 14 February
Scholar packs a punch in the wrestling ring as ‘Mr Canada’ Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South By Jack Grove 13 February
Arts universities struggle for survival in US Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model By Rick Seltzer for Inside Higher Ed 13 February
‘Perfect 10’ wariness reveals gender bias in student evaluations Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds By Jack Grove 12 February
Republicans push to rate universities on graduate earnings Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector By Paul Basken 11 February
US campus police up their game in response to mounting threats Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes By Jon Marcus 11 February
US universities sympathise with controversial student visa sting Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders By Paul Basken 9 February
Diversity concerns as biomedical papers ‘ignore sex as variable’ Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex By Rachael Pells 9 February
Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim By Paul Basken 8 February
Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility By Rachael Pells 8 February
US postgraduate courses lose foreign students for second year Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools By Paul Basken 7 February
