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Artificial intelligence and automation are bringing changes to higher education that will challenge, and may even threaten, traditional universities.
The tax bill that just cleared the Senate contains sweeping changes to nearly every facet of American life.
Universities play a vital role in promoting economic growth, something the writers of the Republican tax plan have apparently forgotten.
Colleges and universities boast US$547 billion in endowment assets, yet only a handful of elite schools would be taxed under the proposal.
How to define the public role of universities in the age of post-truth populism.
If universities work together they are more likely to find creative solutions to problems. Collaboration will allow them to benefit from the global academic community’s collective wisdom.
For decades, the US has used international education to support democracy and positive relations with countries. For most of the 1970s, Iran sent more students to America than any other country.
TCUS launched on October 21, 2014 with six editors. Today we are 12 editors and growing.
Immigrants have contributed to America’s great success at the Nobel. Of the 350 Nobel winners from the United States, more than 100 have been immigrants.
Here’s why some English universities are raising their tuition fees again.
An open access textbook model is gaining traction in the US and Australia and shaking up the publishing industry.
A new film questions the way universities handle complaints of sexual assault.
Students at American universities are spending more and more years on completing their PhDs, only to find there are fewer and fewer tenure-track jobs.
Universities are places that teach ethics to students. But, on any given day, you can read about several university scandals. Do universities practice what they teach?
If Americans are hiding behind the explosion of diversity to avoid looking at racism, what can universities do about it? A lot.
Kevin Carey’s new book, The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere, envisions a future in which good education will be available to everyone everywhere.
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