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Amid ongoing confusion around grant decisions and payments, scholars fear they will not be able to continue with potentially life-saving work

Campuses quiet despite slew of executive orders attacking higher education

US colleges and universities that predominantly serve underrepresented students don¡¯t know where they stand amid new president¡¯s sweeping executive orders

UK society for American studies has funding removed for not complying with US Embassy request on new president¡¯s diversity policies

Even if the department lives to fight another day, putting it under threat will have helped Republicans to ¡®flood the zone¡¯ and disorientate opponents, academics say

Scouring funded grant applications for ¡®woke¡¯ terminology is ¡®chilling¡¯, say top US researchers alarmed by defunding threats

From cancelled guest lectures to disrupted clinical trials, the damage to US science caused by a grant approval freeze is mounting, but further problems lie ahead

White House directive to pause external communications causes chaos at America¡¯s main science funder

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However we feel about the election result, we must strive to make education and democracy protect and nurture one another, says Michael Roth

More attacks on academic freedom, heightened privatisation and possible elimination of Department of Education on agenda following Republican victory

It¡¯s tempting to dismiss the Ohio senator¡¯s attacks on higher education as MAGA rabble-rousing, but he is right in some respects, says Lincoln Allison

Republican front runner lifts from DeSantis playbook in idea for free online alternative to ¡®woke¡¯ universities, connecting to concerns on endowments and access

US grant agency hopes to ensure a more scientific approach after years of political battles over risks of China collaborations

DeSantis, in derisive showing at politically battered campus, enacts measure that also ends diversity hiring

After brief term leading NIH¡¯s biggest division, former Harvard surgeon embraced as established talent at time of turmoil

Saint Anselm College says event was part of democratic process but faced condemnation, given former president¡¯s track-record of spreading misinformation

Trudeau administration hardens line on research ties to China, as academics report unsolicited approaches from intelligence agency

Biden signalled new approach to scientific engagement with Asian superpower, but scholars say Trump¡¯s China Initiative is continuing under new guises

In high-profile instance of Trump administration crackdown, former Harvard nanoscientist gets leniency as he faces incurable cancer

New College of Florida governing board assembled by governor refuses faculty-backed professor candidates

Key Trump adviser warns party backers about the dangers they now face from easier registration and voting processes on campuses

Governance strategy by Trump-backing Republican governor held up by national group of university trustees as model to be emulated

Outgoing president laments partisan attacks on academia as he is criticised for handing a major honour to top funder of Ron DeSantis

Chief higher education lobby group finds decline in share of institutions boosting their overseas outreach, but takes comfort in unexpected areas of growth during the pandemic

As politicians begin to confront America¡¯s student debt crisis, Charlie Eaton explains how public opinion turned so decisively against the financialisation of US higher education and why full loan cancellation is now on the cards

Jury takes three hours to agree nanoscience expert lied about Wuhan ties to sidestep pressure campaign against binational research partnerships

Two-thirds of eligible college students voted, with Trump-era motivations seen to be generating new political power for campus voices

But about-turn leaves gaps and lingering fears about challenging political power

Long-standing challenge on research disclosures grows more urgent with rising China tensions and anti-Asian discrimination

Aggrieved pro-Trump offshoots rise on campuses, complete with allegedly rigged national leadership election

In first federal court test, Indiana University can keep mandate with exemptions for its on-campus students

Court order has little immediate effect but has generated new Democrat vows to seek citizenship for child immigrants

After FBI admissions in Tennessee case, Arizona-led survey aims to see how badly US was hurt by Trump enforcement

Jury can¡¯t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy

Embattled university president in staunchly conservative state sees business-world allies valuing benefits of under-fire course

University retreats under pressure by pausing graduation plans for critic of pro-Trump insurrectionists

Outgoing US president cites USC trustee in rationale for helping fellow Florida developer

Only losers focus on excellent science. Better to cook the books, spin the wheel and trust to cronies, say Robert de Vries and John Jerrim

University president claims peers are so captured by need to cultivate politicians and donors that they fail to publicly challenge anything but the most egregious behaviour

John Eastman, a renowned conservative, joined Trump at rally to push vote fraud claim

Elise Stefanik, backer of claims that fuelled Capitol riot, evicted from government school

Billionaire becomes second in Cabinet to make symbolic move with two weeks left

University leaders fear Trump harming democracy as voters hand more power to Democrats

Republican office holders will walk a fine line of supporting their local college while decrying higher education in general, says Anthony Carnevale

Scholars say international students are drawn to cosmopolitan areas, which tend to be more liberal, while postgraduate students may be ¡®sensitive to states¡¯ political conditions¡¯

Observers concerned by lack of coordinated effort to tackle populism and its causes

If we can¡¯t find the narrative forms to make the world real to one another, we risk losing our politics to the fantasists and cynics, says Lyndsey Stonebridge

The popular conception that US academics are uniformly liberal fails to take into account universities¡¯ subject breadth, says John R. Thelin

Liberty University thinktank pushes boundaries on political advertising with posts appearing to endorse Trump and champion right-wing issues

The removal of Donald Trump from the White House could lead to major reform in college education, but many other issues require urgent action, argue Sandro Galea and Nason Maani

Trump move welcomed as regulatory relief, but some onlookers expressed fears over effects on students

Oldest state-funded military college has history of venerating Confederacy

Universities reject Trump tally as hypocritical political stunt and call for clearer guidance

Pushed by Covid, academic authors see rare need to offer political voice

Institutions have begun cancelling diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in response to an executive order, but critics say it amounts to censorship

Those temporarily plucked from the academic ranks would have no motivation or ability to wreak havoc and then move on, argues Bruce Krajewski

John Jenkins apologises for shaking hands and not wearing mask at ceremony

Proposal nearing implementation also lets visa agency assess academic progress