Academics’ belief in merit-based promotion at odds with their experiences of discrimination, study finds Read more

Two key federal policy makers from different parties agreed that higher education needs to evolve to stay relevant as employers begin to emphasize skills over degrees in the hiring process. Read more

A Florida State University criminology professor who recently left his job amid accusations that he falsified data to make racism look worse than it is has raised the specter of academic research fraud across the board. Read more

The announcement was made on Friday, during the inauguration of Timothy Sams as the institution’s sixth president. Read more

Violent protests erupted in the heart of Western Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening as student activists attempted to shut down a debate at the University of Pittsburgh between political commentators Michael Knowles and Brad Polumbo concerning transgender rights. Read more

Editorial team at NeuroImage will work with MIT Press to establish new non-profit journal Read more

The action could be subject to regulatory approvals, depending upon what form the affiliation takes, and it would be contingent on approvals by the schools’ boards of trustees. Read more

Students at George Washington University in Washington D.C. held a mass protest of administrators’ decision to arm some campus police officers in light of recent high-profile shootings across the nation. Read more

Nearly two dozen colleges have fallen victim to “swatting” threats in recent weeks. Public safety officials say they must be treated as real; for students, they often feel that way. Read more

The government is considering issuing guidance to single-sex schools in England saying that they cannot be legally obliged to take transgender pupils, as part of advice to be released this term. Read more