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Virtual tools have unprecedented power to bend teaching towards research-proven ideals, yet opportunity of lockdown getting squandered, MIT experts tell colleagues

The vice-chancellor of McGill University reflects on her nine years leading one of Canada’s top universities as she prepares to step down

After leaked version of US Supreme Court ruling, conservative-state universities face prospect of sliding further behind on quality

Pentagon fell short on promises to help HBCUs compete for research grants, though institutions see new motivation from foreign tensions

Just as campaigns to promote societal benefit show strength, activists admit setbacks in wider battleground for basic academic freedom

Minority public medical school enrolment seen down by more than third in five years in US states that banned racial considerations in admissions

US project leaders with history of China collaboration ‘saw dent to citations’

Education Department admits data-diverting code in federal aid website, toughening politics for institutional performance monitoring

Higher education is key to reassessing who we are as a nation and why we’re tolerating such extreme division and deception, says Vincent Rougeau

Population declines and employment shifts key factors, but universities also seen ignoring non-teaching career pathways

Naviance, available to nearly half of nation’s high school students, admits years of Caucasian filtering for campuses building candidate lists

University data expertise essential to ‘capacity building’ for city government on issues ranging from air quality to localising UN sustainability goals, THE summit hears