A Canadian college is under fire after social media users discovered the school required students and faculty joining a Zoom call to agree they have benefited from white privilege and vow to engage in acts of “decolonization.” Read more

The largest known plant on Earth - a seagrass roughly three times the size of Manhattan - has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Read more

Institutions large and small are hoping to learn from others at AAC&U sessions how they can help fight systemic racism Read more

Students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City launched a podcast called “Angry White Men and How They Ruined the World.” Read more

For the third time in the past six years, the Drake University Student Senate chose to not recognize the Turning Point USA chapter as an official club. Read more

The postwar dream of doing better in life than your parents has faded, with the UK now a country where opportunities for upward social mobility and economic advancement are increasingly limited, research has claimed. Read more

Universities UK, which represents 140 institutions, fears ministers could be about to abandon the Horizon scheme. Read more

Last fall, when professors at Flagler College, a private liberal arts school in St. Augustine, Florida, gathered for a faculty senate meeting, they learned that the college administration had worked with their local legislator to propose a new academic center on campus, the Flagler College Institute for Classical Education. Read more

"Every university has the potential to be actively engaged in technology transfer so that good ideas benefit the general public," analysis says. Read more

With Facebook on the decline, some institutions are turning to a third-party app to foster connection among new first-year students. Faculty, administrators and current students are also welcome. Read more