Jill Biden returns to college teaching role with appeal for unity First presidential spouse with independent career hopes community college class will show middle ground on Covid By Paul Basken 8 September
Howard cancels classes as campus cyberattacks mount Top HBCU is latest victim in ransomware onslaught that has institutions globally struggling to counter By Paul Basken 8 September
The?Chair: is Netflix show too painful for academics to?watch? Scholars offer a range of views on the popular and much-anticipated Netflix series By Matthew Reisz 7 September
Amherst students protest against ¡®restrictive¡¯ Covid protocols Students prohibited from visiting off-campus restaurants and bars, and must wear masks indoors and outdoors By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed 6 September
World Academic Summit: ¡®same contrarian nonsense¡¯ on Covid and climate change People will always ¡®come up with the same bullshit¡¯ to support anti-science agendas, says Nasa scientist By Anna McKie 6 September
End ¡®panic and forget¡¯ cycle of basic research, says virologist Author of ¡®sleeping beauty¡¯ coronavirus paper says her experience is ¡®incredibly strong¡¯ argument for funding basic science By Simon Baker 5 September
World Academic Summit: developing-nation universities courting serious partners Institutions in poorer nations have the eager students, and hope the West is now ready to supply the expertise By Paul Basken 3 September
World Academic Summit: branch campuses come of age as pandemic hits mobility But offshore bulwarks take many forms ¨C and in some institutions, staying at home works best By John Ross 2 September
World Academic Summit: universities yet to grasp ¡®enormity¡¯ of slavery redress Admitting profits is a strong start, experts say, but academia has much more central culpability yet to remedy By Paul Basken 2 September
Biden threatens to withhold funding from colleges over vaccines US threatens aid cut if states prohibit Covid protections, and then makes clear university campuses are included By Paul Basken 2 September
Academic freedom can mean refusing to teach material that is too traumatic Keeping going through the pandemic has proved a huge challenge for many working in universities. Being asked to present a story involving an abused child proved a step too far for Rachel O¡¯Donnell By Rachel O¡¯Donnell 2 September
World Academic Summit: tech without humanities ¡®ends in situations like that of Uighurs¡¯ AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells THE summit that non-science disciplines are vital to shaping how tech is used By Simon Baker 1 September
