Top lawyer’s Harvard fellowship ‘cancelled over Israel criticism’
Outcry over cancellation of planned post for former Human Rights Watch director
Outcry over cancellation of planned post for former Human Rights Watch director
Having a name that takes longer to pronounce also associated with employment at a lower-ranked institution
Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded
Soon-to-retire septuagenarian tells students to keep their distance amid Covid-19 surge, saying he ‘couldn’t give a flying fuck any longer’
Major union win includes access to arbitration or mediation on discrimination and harassment complaints
University insists historian Garrett Felber was let go for failing to communicate effectively with department chair
Dean at University of Colorado Boulder plans to replace tenured and tenure-track faculty with instructors, but critics say the move tells students that ‘their education doesn’t really matter’
Students are lobbying for extensions to the pass-fail grading system that was widely adopted earlier this year, but most universities are proving less lenient than they were in spring
Scientists ask why major journal published findings that female mentors may be bad for your career, even after reviewers pointed out flaws in the paper’s methodology
Institutions have begun cancelling diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in response to an executive order, but critics say it amounts to censorship
The normalisation of burning out should no longer be accepted, say academics who have experienced it, particularly with coronavirus exacerbating the problem
Frustrated with their university’s plan for the autumn, which is slated to include full dorms, a group of professors has broken rank and sent an open letter to students
Use of word angers students, who say it was pedagogically unnecessary and hurtful
Texas A&M University System chancellor’s public letter to Harvard president is latest incident in ongoing “food fight” between the two institutions over debated healthiness of eating red meat
Researchers examined a sample of CVs and found that scholarly dishonesty extends to job applications