Baby boomers back on campus as US universities surf silver wave Retirees are being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students. Jon Marcus reports Jon Marcus 5月 7日
US judge protects foreign students over visa mistakes Trump policy expanding long-term bans is set aside and is likely to be ended Paul Basken 5月 7日
US universities fear wider application of new endowment tax Elite institutions making last-ditch bid to block multimillion-dollar levy Paul Basken 5月 4日
Trump adviser seeks limits to crackdown on foreign scientists Kelvin Droegemeier tells researchers that openness is ‘part of our value system’ Paul Basken 5月 3日
Chinese family ‘paid $6.5 million to get daughter into Stanford’ Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly Paul Basken 5月 2日
Scholar takes students’ phones and makes them read for four hours David Pe?a-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’ Anna McKie 5月 2日
Stanford University Press gets funding reprieve after protests Hundreds of professors had signed petition opposing scrapping of annual subsidy from parent institution Paul Basken 5月 1日
US science academy moves to expel sexual harassment perpetrators New policy would allow for removal of members following two-thirds vote of governing council Paul Basken 5月 1日
Experimental colleges: an idea whose time has passed? Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector Paul Basken 5月 1日
Early career productivity ‘linked to workplace, not training’ Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ‘prestige’ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce Simon Baker 4月 29日
Stanford pursues talks to save academic press after criticism University threat to cut $1.7 million annual subsidy generates widespread protest Paul Basken 4月 29日
Academics seek to close pay gaps between US system campuses Rutgers deal aims to combat wealth divide between New Brunswick flagship and outposts in Newark and Camden Paul Basken 4月 28日
