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Humanistic fields are vital to solving the world’s most urgent problems; they also help students shape successful careers and meaningful lives, argue Agustín Rayo and Hashim Sarkis

Legacy admissions prove durable in US sector despite Amherst’s decision to scrap advantages

Those bemoaning the decline of Classics on campus should examine how recent generations have tackled the problem, says Harvey J. Graff

Months of talks among congressional Democrats shifts community college focus to preschool ages and aids minority campuses and immigrants

After years of crackdown on Chinese-born scholars, US universities in danger of losing critical base of students and workers, University of Arizona-led survey finds

Report on breakthrough technology in cyber-agriculture withdrawn over accuracy and replicability as former researcher sues MIT

Two-thirds of eligible college students voted, with Trump-era motivations seen to be generating new political power for campus voices

Meeting student demand on climate, Canada’s top-ranked institution to cut oil companies from C$4 billion endowment by 2030

John Morgan meets the Nobel prizewinning father of nudge economics, who believes that the dismal science can only be improved by taking account of people’s ‘predictable mistakes’ 

Pledge by leaders of AAU campuses designed to prevent abusers from repeating behaviour by moving between institutions

Male reviewers more than twice as likely as females to voluntarily identify themselves, and signed reviews substantially less critical of authors, analysis finds

Movement highlights need for indigenous ‘restoration’, THE summit hears