Ivan Davis, 1932-2018 Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered By Matthew Reisz 12 April
Confucius Institute crackdown predicted as global inquiries mount Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts By Ellie Bothwell 12 April
Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism, by Nisha Kapoor Laleh Khalili ponders how the eschewing of Muslim suspects’ human rights affects us all By Laleh Khalili 12 April
Healing from Hate: How Young Men Get Into – and Out of – Violent Extremism, by Michel Kimmel Matthew Feldman considers an exploration of the perception of masculinity and its effects on extremism By Matthew Feldman 12 April
Smartest in class: male students ‘overestimate’ intelligence It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side By John Ross 5 April
Stop funding research that ignores sex and gender, says expert Stanford's Londa Schiebinger warns that failure to account for differing impact of interventions on men and women is costing lives By Rachael Pells 4 April
Public universities majority funded by tuition in most US states Higher education finance report says states must redress balance of public university funding By Ellie Bothwell 3 April
US research agencies and universities navigate budget ‘shambles’ Delay and unpredictability of spending bill raises questions over the ‘effectiveness’ of increased investment, say policy experts By Ellie Bothwell 1 April
Cheap flights increase research collaboration, study finds Expansion of US carrier associated with increase in partnerships of more than 30 per cent By Rachael Pells 30 March
Saba Mahmood, 1962-2018 Tributes paid to anthropologist who specialised in study of modern Egypt By Matthew Reisz 29 March
Students protest plans to cut humanities at Wisconsin campus University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point proposes to eliminate 13 arts majors to manage deficit of $4.5 million (?3.2 million) over two years By Ellie Bothwell 27 March
Professor apologises as ‘white engineers’ email falls flat Binghamton University, State University of New York academic’s response to fundraising dinner invitation for National Society of Black Engineers branded ‘deeply offensive’ By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 26 March