Paul Basken

paul.basken@timeshighereducation.com

Paul Basken joined Times Higher Education as North America editor in September 2018. He was previously a government policy and science reporter with The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he won an annual National Press Club award for exclusives. He founded the State Department bureau at Bloomberg News, was a White House and international correspondent with United Press International, and serves on the editorial advisory board of ASEE’s Prism magazine.

Articles by Paul Basken

Torn poster of Barack Obama to illustrate what now for DEI in the US?

What now for DEI in the US?

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have come under sustained attack from the political right, resulting in the shuttering of DEI offices and curbs on teaching and research. With affirmative action also banned, how might universities continue to support minority students and staff, asks Paul Basken

1 August

Lawrence, Kansas, USA - October 1, 2020 World War II Memorial Campanile, erected 1950, on the campus of University of Kansas

Kansas chemist gets final acquittal in China ties case

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

16 July

Tallahassee, FL, USA - Feb 15, 2019 The huge outside preserve grounds of the Old Capital of Florida

Florida A&M president resigns after fundraising row

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

15 July

A security guard salutes while standing among empty seatsin Las Vegas, Nevada to illustrate US universities fear ‘ghosting’ by international students

US universities fear ‘ghosting’ by international students

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

15 July

Person competes in the breakaway roping event during The American Rodeo, Texas to illustrate How Walmart founders’ donation bankrolled US private school push

How Walmart founders’ donation bankrolled US private school push

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

13 July

California campus president quits in protest fallout

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

12 July

Baker-Berry Library, Dartmouth College

Dartmouth suspends Greek houses after student’s death

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

11 July

Alma Mater statue at Columbia University

Columbia removes three administrators in texting scandal

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

9 July

A U.S. Capitol police officer carries "Area Closed" signs in front of the U.S. Capitol to illustrate Could US education department be shut?

Could Donald Trump close the US Department of Education?

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

9 July

Climate change in action

US sociologists ‘ignoring’ climate change in research

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

9 July

Johns Hopkins Hospital

Bloomberg billion makes Johns Hopkins medical school free to most

Latest gift brings tycoon’s total gifts to alma mater to about $4.6 billion

8 July

The Supreme Court of the United States building Washington, D.C.

US universities fear new Supreme Court ruling on regulations

Apparent elimination of longstanding regulatory process leaves higher education experts expecting more costs, complexities and confusions

2 July

People ride a zip line on the Canadian side of the Niagara River to illustrate Canada ‘may fall short of caps’ as overseas interest nosedives

Canada ‘may fall short of caps’ as overseas interest nosedives

After Trudeau administration imposed sharp cut in student visas, institutions are now watching other restrictions having a much stronger effect

1 July

Republicans urge National Institutes of Health overhaul

Lawmakers promise ‘robust conversation’ on future of top science agency, but accompanying limits on funding and research freedom raise suspicions about ultimate intention

28 June

“Alma Mater,” a bronze statue by Daniel Chester French (1852-1931) welcomes students and visitors from the monumental staircase of Low Library at Columbia University.

Columbia suspends top officials over antisemitism event texting

After enduring harsh national spotlight for pro-Palestinian student protests, Ivy League campus investigates case that hands its conservative critics powerful new ammunition

24 June

US judge blocks Biden regulation of for-profit colleges

In latest intervention by conservative-dominated judiciary, proprietary schools temporarily avoid seeing student loan eligibility tied to period of degree requirements

24 June

Leadership exemplified by a person in a red blazer addressing a group of diverse professionals gathered in a semicircle, in a bright modern office setting

US law schools pushed to improve leadership training

Lack of management nous leaves legal profession vulnerable as human and technological shifts expose need for people skills

24 June

Cheerleaders marching in a parade in New Orleans, United States of America.

US pushed to protect student-athletes from sexual abuse

As collegiate sports grow more professionalised and women gain more fans, federal audit suggests that persistent oversights still leave large gender gap in safety

21 June

Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea: I have a hard time with academic grumbling

Leaving Boston University to start a new school of public health at Washington University in St Louis, the Malta native eyes the critical importance of shaping public attitudes

20 June

US universities to improve protest policies after Gaza probes

Michigan and CUNY accept Biden findings to complaints about campus demonstrations, which identifies student victims on both sides

18 June

Crumpled tape measure

‘Top per cent’ admissions programmes found to boost equity

Research suggests women particularly benefit from schemes that guarantee admission to highest-achieving school leavers

18 June

A visitor have photo taken within a 100 dollar bill in Money Museum in Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Illinois.USA

US universities ride revival of congressional earmark funding

After decade-long suspension due to perceived overuse, federal budget set-asides by individual lawmakers again disproportionately bolstering academia and its science

18 June

Multi-coloured puzzle with figures of people

NIH hesitates on disability goal but takes on diversity critics

Top US research funding agency, while unsure about proposed change to mission statement, swings back at partisan attempts to limit an equity-focused agenda

14 June

Visitors look inside the closed Philadelphia Museum of Art to illustrate Private US college closures look to gain public attention

Private US college closures look to gain public attention

Philadelphia city officials probe University of the Arts shutdown, in sign that policymakers might see the need to go beyond their habit of only protecting their publics

14 June

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