A new task force to be established by Louisiana lawmakers will examine tenure policies at the state’s colleges and universities and suggest possible reforms. Read more

Study finds having hard-to-pronounce names—from the perspective of native English speakers—results in poorer job placements for economics Ph.D.s. Read more

UA had more than 400 full-time undergraduates from the state last year, and university officials hope that number will rise. Read more

The pandemic has had a lasting legacy on the mental health of the “Covid generation” of students, exacerbating rates of anxiety, depression and self-harm and resulting in a “significant rise” in young people struggling at university, experts have said. Read more

A University of Missouri student reported a professor to the school’s bias response team for showing a video of President Donald Trump criticizing Mexican drug lords, according to records obtained by The College Fix. Read more

Californians’ constitutional rights to abortion may be protected, but questions abound over what effect the Supreme Court’s Friday decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will have on out-of-state students who come to the state’s universities. Read more

Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt Read more

The petition is in response to Thomas’s decision last Friday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the landmark abortion cases Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Read more

The award-winning author Philip Pullman has said the study of literature “should not be a luxury for a wealthy minority of spoilt and privileged aesthetes” after it emerged that Sheffield Hallam University is to pull its English literature degree from next year. Read more

The U7+ Alliance of World Universities, 45 research universities from around the world, has issued a new statement on academic freedom. Read more