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
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
