In November, the faculty of Pitzer College voted overwhelmingly in support of suspending the college’s study abroad program with the University of Haifa, setting two conditions for the resumption of the program. The first condition is that entry to Israel, and thus to the Haifa program, must be free of discrimination based on ancestry and legitimate political speech. The second is that Israel allow foreign exchanges with Palestinian universities on the same basis that it does for Israeli universities. Currently, the Israeli state does not issue visas that allow foreign students and faculty members to join Palestinian universities for a full semester, much less any longer. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. Requiring that at least 40 percent of search committee members be female was followed by a drop in hiring of women, study found. More...

By David Matthews for Times Higher Education. European Commission envoy sees attempt to get around open-access requirements.
Research funders are being “taken for a ride” by publishers who launch new so-called mirror journals that mimic existing titles in an open-access format, according to the man spearheading an international effort to make more scholarship freely available. More...

Deborah S. Willis gives advice on how to incorporate such conversations into your graduate school or postdoctoral experience. More...

It may feel a little scary, but it also means there aren’t really any wrong choices, writes Joseph Barber, who gives advice for making the most of yours. More...