Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme
Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections Read more
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Are Elite Colleges Circumventing the Supreme Court?
In July 2023, the Supreme Court issued landmark decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v. UNC, ruling that using race as a factor in college admissions is unconstitutional. Read more
Higher ed research and development spending is surging
Growth in research and development spending hit a 20-year high in higher ed, according to the latest data. Read more
Brown U. rejects oil-funded research ban, says all corporate donors will be made public
Brown University rejected petitions to ban oil and gas funded research, opting instead for transparency in donations to the school. Read more
India’s ‘blockbuster’ drugs to take on deadly superbugs
Antibiotics are hailed as medical saviours. But they are increasingly facing a crafty adversary: bacteria that mutate and adapt and outwit the very drugs designed to defeat them and cure the infections they cause. Read more
Cornell Interim President Accused of Violating Academic Freedom After Email Leaks
A professor’s accusation that another’s course is antisemitic and dangerous spilled out into public after the interim president weighed in and his private email was shared. Read more
Japan’s American university grows as students stay close to home
Temple University Japan reports record enrolments and plans Kyoto campus Read more
Telegram U-turns and joins child safety scheme
After years of ignoring pleas to sign up to child protection schemes, the controversial messaging app Telegram has agreed to work with an internationally recognised body to stop the spread of child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Read more
Columbia, Penn State cancer researchers face retractions, one blames LGBTQ discrimination
Two prominent cancer researchers at Columbia and Pennsylvania State universities had their research articles retracted recently due to allegations of misconduct, including the use of manipulated data. Read more
Students Think Faculty Should Be Mentors. What Does That Look Like?
Over half of students believe their professors are at least somewhat responsible for being a mentor to them. Faculty weigh in on the feasibility of this effort. Read more
