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.
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Articles by Paul Basken
Trump administration defied court order to protect former for-profit students
Flagship campus to be led by educator who advised on hiring and previously worked in schools with segregationist past
Funding challenges need cooperative spirit among educators, finance officers say
Ivy League icon praised for defending race-based admissions, but faulted for actual record
Court ruling is likely headed to Supreme Court, which may reconsider past approvals
New law envisages broad shake-up to benefit minorities, with full effects tough to predict
Leader’s offensive behaviours portrayed as exception for morality-focused institution
As university expands record endowment, comments boost concern over moral clarity
Decline of for-profits helps, but ethnic minorities and low income students still in trouble
Donation comes from billionaire producers of plastic-bottled water
Cornell, New Mexico and Morehouse schemes highlight importance of debate at federal level, say experts
As governments around the world increasingly look to follow US states’ lead and link university funding to the recruitment, retention and employability of students, Paul Basken surveys the results of the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings 2020 for clues about the strategy’s effectiveness
Weeks after Trump vow to strengthen HBCUs, key Republican senator causes row by tying funding to wider HE legislation
University study centre ‘positive’ on Islam but not Christianity, objects senior Department of Education official
Lecturers’ union fears Andrew Scheer is portraying universities as left-wing ‘indoctrination centres’, with potentially damaging consequences
In move that leaves other institutions wary, Northeastern pushing new students to foreign posts
Trump adviser plans multi-agency tour of universities confused by crackdown
Fighting what it sees as anticompetitive practices, Trump administration may harm universities and low-income students
Contrition helps actress who paid to get answers changed on her daughter's SAT
Long-awaited francophone university in largest Canadian province to emphasise humanities
As Harvard donates some Epstein money, MIT’s president concedes endorsing abusive financier
The futurist on her gutsy mum, why technology should liberate not control, and how graduates are turning their backs on Silicon Valley
Joi Ito alleged to have made extensive efforts to hide millions of dollars donated by sexual abuser
Domestic students benefit for now as foreign classmates cancel out provincial budget cuts
