US universities sympathise with controversial student visa sting Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders By Paul Basken 9 February
Diversity concerns as biomedical papers ¡®ignore sex as variable¡¯ Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex By Rachael Pells 9 February
Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures Larry Bacow calls campuses ¡®far more adaptable and durable¡¯ than sceptics claim By Paul Basken 8 February
Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched US government funding $7.6 million (?5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility By Rachael Pells 8 February
US postgraduate courses lose foreign students for second year Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ¡®troubling¡¯ sign for graduate schools By Paul Basken 7 February
Academic family trees: valuable insights or vanity project? Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring By Robert Hart 7 February
Professor suspended for using N-word in class discussion The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 7 February
MIT opts to keep Saudi partnerships after post-Khashoggi review MIT expresses ¡®deep sense of revulsion¡¯ over Khashoggi killing but won¡¯t override faculty choice of partners By Paul Basken 6 February
Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America¡¯s ¡®competitive advantage¡¯, says Robert Zimmer By Jack Grove 6 February
US universities fall in behind China security warnings Researchers participating in China¡¯s Thousand Talents initiative ¨C aimed at luring scientists back home ¨C urged to quit By Paul Basken 5 February
US officials retreat from ¡®provocative¡¯ higher education reforms In what may be a tactical pullback, Trump administration reduces reach of wide-reaching bid to empower for-profit sector By Paul Basken 4 February
US university students see nuance in free speech limits Amid strident debates, undergraduate attitudes reflect expert appeal for case-by-case considerations By Paul Basken 2 February
