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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University find that giving students more control increases the time they spend studying and improves their performance in tasks

Five years after arrest in Trump crackdown, Chinese-born Franklin Feng Tao gets vindication – and wants his job back

Head of prominent public historically black institution troubled by programme performance and commencement slot for hemp farmer turned donor

Rising number of applicants from abroad secure visas but don’t show up at campuses

University of Arkansas’ decades-old gift traced to raft of disputed research now playing key political role

Tom Jackson resigns at Cal Poly Humboldt after ordering police raid on student demonstrators, amid nationwide pushback against hardline responses

UCLA lecturer says ban necessary due to fears that those discussing contentious issues may face repercussions

Body found in river after gathering of a fraternity and a sorority that both had histories of alcohol-related violations

The president of San José State University on harnessing location to build partnerships, the importance of representation and why she isn’t a ‘traditional academic’

Ivy League campus, however, keeps in place the dean who also participated, boosting concerns about its sincerity amid sustained political threat

Planetary warming shown to attract very few of the subject’s scholarly articles, conference sessions and course listings

Republican nominee promises to end department in second term, though experts see underlying details as the more threatening aspects