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Conservative billionaire-backed bids for university’s Overseers board produces complaints about process and vows to try again next year

Many who study science do not pursue it as a career, sociologist John Skrentny has found, and toxic work cultures mean that few of those who do enter industry stay for long

With new project to study advanced computing, NSF doesn’t ask major online companies to share secrets but hopes they eventually will

Biden administration stumbles in bid to increase federal tuition subsidies and ease application process, snarling acceptance timelines nationwide

Sherri Ann Charleston described as having repeated instances of multiple sentences matching others’ writings, mirroring complaints that took down university’s first black president

Conservative majority in House of Representatives backs idea of forcing universities to cover unpaid student loans, widening attack on academic foundations

As Harvard University seeks a new leader following the short-lived presidency of Claudine Gay, the institution’s long-time president Derek Bok reflects on the need for elite US universities to react to the political maelstrom by abandoning questionable practices and improving the quality of their education

Biden administration examining if favouring alumni families is a civil rights violation

Policy that has allowed universities to automatically charge students for course materials comes under threat from Biden administration

Requirement for new applications to be accompanied by letters of attestation means limits are effective immediately, universities say

When adjunct faculty contribute so much to US academia, why are they denied basic benefits such as health insurance and medical leave, asks Josh Hiller

Provinces promise action against private operators, but universities fear Trudeau is going too far, too fast, without consulting sector