‘Time to get real’ on US science diversity efforts As White House and National Academies plan studies, Howard Hughes Medical Institute acts to boost minority researchers By Paul Basken 22 October
US universities should get ahead of student athletes’ rights revolution As another legal ruling cements the concept of student athletes as employees, institutions need to react, say Harry Johnson and Nicole Buffalano By Harry I. Johnson, III 22 October
Emerging Economies Summit: Online learning platforms ‘may become graduate talent brokers’ Corporations increasingly keen on hiring learners straight from online learning platforms, edX business head claims By Jack Grove 19 October
North Carolina admissions lawsuit win upholds affirmative action Federal court decision continues series of losses for conservative activist group By Paul Basken 19 October
Tennessee offers to rehire engineer cleared in China trial Anming Hu was acquitted in court prosecution under Trump crackdown on academic scientists with China ties By Paul Basken 19 October
US universities ponder massive debt to Native Americans In year since land-grant institutions learned they were funded by theft, serious conversations have barely begun By Paul Basken 19 October
US postgraduate enrolment grows despite pandemic disruption Increased domestic recruitment, particularly among minorities, offsets overseas decline By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed 18 October
Georgia state universities weaken tenure protections Move bolsters fears of political attacks on US higher education and prompts AAUP to consider boycott By Paul Basken 14 October
Is Classics’ empire in terminal decline? With contention about diversity adding to concerns about employability and declining student numbers, does Classics in the US need rebranding or rethinking? Paul Basken reports By Paul Basken 14 October
Charges dropped for first time in US?admissions scandal Just ahead of trial, former Wake Forest volleyball coach gets reprieve in return for repaying alleged bribe By Paul Basken 13 October
US and Canadian students protest over sexual assaults Anger growing amid greater awareness and sense of administration failures By Paul Basken 13 October
US colleges hit by wave of student labour unionisation Demands pushed by pandemic fears, labour shortages, awakened student athletes and Biden encouragement By Paul Basken 12 October