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Education and labour expert from Columbia and Princeton promises new focus on helping students compare institutions

Peer-reviewed open access entry aims to unite field burdened by outside political turmoil and internal disagreements over academic norms

学者们被敦促教学时更多地在场以营造更好的学习环境

Businessman whose daughter won Georgetown admission after large donation successfully portrays his action as normal practice

After years of crude attacks on individual faculty and curriculum, Florida’s ambitious partisan governor identifies more palatable and enduring form of deep academic restraint

Federal agents charged with patrolling university labs fret the open environment, not knowing sector’s practices well enough, auditor concludes

启用先进云系统的美国大学在一年内翻了一番，尽管大型高校仍因高昂成本和复杂性而选择观望

In fight to keep cities safe, some academics seen as harming urban poor by prioritising police and donors over community needs

In largest such use of criminal laws, dozens from University of New Hampshire – including witnesses who did not report – face prosecution after single hazing incident

Daniel Silber complains university was not giving staff being made redundant enough time to find a new role

Rather than repeating other institutions’ mistakes, universities should embrace established ‘modalities’ for collaborative online international learning – and appreciate it as more than a Covid stopgap

Alumnus and academic lifer to leave next summer amid rash of turnover among US university leaders in Covid’s aftermath