A package exploded on the campus of Northeastern University in Boston late on Tuesday. The college said a staff member suffered minor injuries. Read more

A Congressional commission wants to see the United States Military Academy at West Point strip the name of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee off buildings and remove his items, along with those of two other Civil War leaders. Read more

A communications professor at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business is on a short-term break after saying a Chinese word that sounds similar to an English language racial slur. Read more

Michigan State trustees are trying to push the president out for reasons that remain unclear. Meanwhile, the president and trustees are trading accusations on alleged Title IX missteps. Read more

Parents in the US have reported receiving a notorious explicit image after hackers targeted a school app with 10 million users including teachers, students and family members. Read more

‘We believe in the power of symmetry and transparency, of open evaluation, for and by faculty,’ website states Read more

Notre Dame of Maryland University will become a fully co-ed institution in fall 2023, admitting men to its undergraduate programs for the first time in more than 125 years, the school said. Read more

Eastern authors ‘risk falling behind’ on visibility and rankings if their work remains behind paywall while US moves to open research, scholars warn Read more

More women scientists work as professors today than at any time in history. But they’re still underpaid relative to their male colleagues with similar publication records, according to a study of more than 2300 science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) faculty members. Read more

Limited access to active learning spaces may disproportionately hurt historically excluded groups, and institutions should build more of these spaces in the name of equity, according to a new study. Where does higher ed stand on next-generation learning spaces? Read more