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Professors who moonlight as puzzle-setters for major newspapers discuss importance of ‘letting the mind wander’ after busy day in the lab

Researchers track how rising demand from international students has increased domestic enrolments and job creation

Universities that rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education emphasized merit in their responses and highlighted core values in turning it down.

President unlikely to back down after deadline passes with no takers for controversial deal that many believe would surrender institutional autonomy

Three nonprofit legal organizations say their caseload has ramped up significantly since Trump took office. But so has public support for their work.

Institution at the heart of Donald Trump’s attacks on higher education tops global ‘soft power’ index

The University of Virginia agreed to a settlement with the Trump administration that will pause investigations over allegedly illegal diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced?

The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

Civil liberties champion Nadine Strossen says US universities must unite to fight president’s ‘blatantly illegal’ plan to destroy institutional autonomy

Universities must show they are ‘capable of change’ to fend off Trump pressure, says Harvard professor

After the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill refused to proffer faculty course materials in response to an open-records request, UNC Greensboro officials made the opposite decision.