For decades, the United States has been a magnet for talent, attracting some of the world’s best scientific minds to its universities and laboratories. Read more

Hundreds of firings inside the federal government’s student aid department have sparked concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk. Read more

The ACLU is currently suing the West Virginia Water Development Authority over a $5 million grant it made to a Catholic trades college, alleging the funding violates the state constitution. Read more

Expensive pensions schemes among issues highlighted as institutions look for ways out of current turmoil Read more

American colleges and universities have received close to $60 billion in foreign gifts and contracts over a decades-long span, according to a new watchdog report. Read more

People will be far more open-minded than you realise if you adopt these simple conversational techniques. Read more

On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from deporting a Columbia student who moved to the U.S. when she was 7. Read more

Legal scholars on what Columbia University should have done — and what other colleges could do next. Read more

A new novel-writing competition with the theme “America 2076” hopes to inspire new talent, particularly students, to write the next great American work of fiction. Read more

Melanie Woodin will succeed Meric Gertler, who has led Canada’s largest university for more than a decade, on 1 July Read more