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California prosecution of nurse with doctoral degree held out as sign of academia’s wider failure to treat profession seriously

As high-profile event to deliver ‘major support’ fades, scientists already desperate for funding explode in disgust

As majority of Ivy League transitions after Covid, social psychologist leaves his decade-long tenure with financial strength and labour challenges

Start-of-year outage affects 120,000 students, faculty and staff at major US institution with top cybersecurity programme

Academics say largest US research funder’s policy aimed at stopping ideas theft could also apply to search engines

US study finds doctoral students who are supervised by leading inventors, or who are male, are much more likely to file patents

Faculty member shot dead at UNC, gunman chased from Florida HBCU kills three black shoppers, student dies trying wrong house

‘Narrow-mindedness’ over China in US universities driven by fear of losing government funding, says Denis Simon

Politicians, the public and judges have grown tired of deferring to universities’ opaque decision-making processes, as illustrated by Supreme Court’s ban on affirmative action in admissions, say Anthony Carnevale and Peter Schmidt

US universities look to alternative ways of ensuring diverse views are respected, reflecting differing approaches to the ‘crisis’

Faculty often feel they’re always on the job because of technology and the stress can stem from not feeling totally in control, writes Betheny Gross

If Stanford’s now-departed president had fully faced up to dubious practices in his lab and insisted on corrections, his infractions of research integrity could have been forgiven, says David Sanders