Paul Basken

University of Phoenix’s two-year bid for a buyer revealed

Once the largest US online university, for-profit has been arguing without luck that it’s a last best chance to enter fast-growing world of adult training

Top HBCUs team up with research universities to promote equity

With AAU providing teamwork and guidance, leading subset of black-serving US institutions hopes that banding together will help overcome decades of public neglect

US eyes new role for research funding in diplomacy

Biden team suggests following lead of China and Europe and putting science dollars in the hands of its diplomats to secure geopolitical benefits

Keep teaching Russian students, rectors insist

Rectors set up emergency measures to allow Russian students to participate in courses even if they cannot leave their country

Raj Chetty: US higher education still mired in inequality

Celebrated Harvard economist opens THE’s World Academic Summit by showing academia’s top leaders the ways their sector continues to stratify society

Universities ‘need good mentors, not just top researchers’

Academics must work closely with students to foster innovation, says KAUST president

University leaders clash over future of research collaboration

Some presidents advocate cutting ties with universities in rival states, while others urge maintaining academic links even when diplomatic ones are straitened

Universities circle as Anthony Fauci plans next career move

Nation’s top doctor, a celebrity after Covid, says he’d like a campus posting to write, lecture and share 60 years of experience

Work-life balance survey 2022

US orders publicly funded research be made free to access immediately

Campaigners say academic publishers will have to ‘figure this out pretty darn fast’ as Biden sets 2025 deadline for switch to instant open access

Are US universities doing enough to help schools?

With university set to become a near-universal expectation for high-school graduates, the separate silos in which K12 and higher education have traditionally operated are increasingly being seen...

Do US campus ‘crime labs’ hurt the communities they seek to help?

In fight to keep cities safe, some academics seen as harming urban poor by prioritising police and donors over community needs

Opinion | A blunt lesson in a Montgomery graduation speech

Before the graduates headed out, intentionally or not, they got hit with one last blunt lesson on what awaits them.

Should universities embrace NFTs?

Non-fungible tokens offer US higher education the prospect of major profits, but mostly in sports and with threat of long-term losses

Master: the horror film that schools US higher education

As debut film portrays academia as racist to the core, Mariama Diallo talks of love for her Yale experience but even tougher realities than she could show

How America’s broken undergraduate education system can be fixed

Obsessed with graduate employment, US universities are doing little to improve students’ ability to think independently, a major new study has concluded. Paul Basken speaks to the Harvard academics...