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Decisions made by Donald Trump’s administration in its first 100 days will have impacts on people’s lives around the world.
The Trump administration attack on Harvard is part of a much wider project.
Most institutions of higher education have more freedom to spend from their endowments than they may realize.
Many well-intentioned people still struggle to understand what exactly constitutes antisemitism and when anti-Israel rhetoric ‘crosses the line.’
The anti-war protests that rocked college campuses across the US in spring 2024 may well erupt again in the fall. An expert on civil disobedience sets the bar high for deploying police.
Barring evidence of moral turpitude or excessive absenteeism, former administrators are very hard to force out.
Threats from disappointed donors over the language used during campus protests about the Israel-Hamas conflict have become angrier and more public than in the past.
University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.
In this podcast, ANU Vice Chancellor and astrophysicist Brian Schmidt joins The Conversation to discuss the challenges universities are facing
The changes wrought by the new conservative majority in the US Supreme Court are revolutionary.
The Supreme Court’s decision to eliminate affirmative action programs sent shock waves across the US and is expected to impact racial diversity throughout society.
Andrew Brimmer, the first African American on the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve, helped develop the blueprint for the Central Bank of Sudan.
Despite what’s happening on the most prestigious campuses, fewer than a third of presidents at American colleges and universities are women.
As the 20th century’s preeminent scholar-activist on race, W.E.B. Du Bois would not be surprised by modern-day attempts at whitewashing American history. He saw them in 1930s and 1940s.
The US Supreme Court is poised to determine the fate of the use of race in college admissions. Supporters of affirmative action, like the military, fear the worst.
Elite universities have been giving special preference to children of prior graduates for more than a century. Has the time come for that practice to stop? A sociologist weighs in.
Americans are getting more comfortable with new forms of spirituality, but their views of atheists are still complicated.
The announcement didn’t use the word ‘divest.’ A legal scholar explains why that shouldn’t matter.
Colleges and universities should apply the best techniques of research and education to their own decision-making.
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