By John Morgan for Times Higher Education. A Russian government shake-up creating a new Ministry of Science and Higher Education is seen as a potential boost to the integration of universities with research, and to the country’s excellence initiative. More...
By John Morgan for Times Higher Education. The University of Cambridge is facing internal criticism over plans to borrow up to £600 million ($801 million), in a move that suggests the emergence of a borrowing “arms race” with the University of Oxford. More...
A lucrative form of patronage appears to be emerging at Michigan State in the wake of the Nassar scandal, write James Finkelstein and Judith Wilde. More...
The Alliance for Academic Freedom is an organization of liberal and progressive academics that combats infringements on academic freedom relating to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on college campuses, including academic boycotts of Israel. More...
We need high-quality educational and training options for people who truly don’t want degrees, but such options cannot replace degrees and should not be an excuse to ignore social and economic inequities, argues Chris W. Gallagher. More...
Describing his service on a voluntary visiting team, Bob Ubell defends regional accreditation as a form of “deliberative democracy” and urges us not to hand it over to a federal education police force. More...
Not long after waking up in Eden for the first time, Adam receives an important assignment. “Out of the ground,” we are told, “the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.” Then he goes to sleep and loses the rib, and Eve shows up to keep things interesting. More...
Peter A. Coclanis calls attention to another form of “unearned” privilege that many people in academe benefit from greatly yet usually take for granted: fluency in the English language. More...
In “FIRE, Aim, Ready!” Steven Bahls charges the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education with engaging in “imbalanced sensationalism.” Specifically, Bahls argues that for purposes of our speech code ratings, we “lump” colleges with policies banning alcohol-related expression in with colleges that maintain far broader restrictions on speech. More...
Michael Poliakoff writes that many campuses deserve attention for failing to defend the values of free expression. More...
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