Turn away from tenure’s dark side A significant minority of tenured faculty spend their lives undermining others when they could be working for progressive change, argues Douglas Dowland By Douglas Dowland 8 August
Dartmouth to pay $14 million in sexual assault case Three professors accused by nine women of using academic powers to press for sex By Paul Basken 8 August
Women participate less in bigger science classes, study finds Universities urged to reconsider use of large introductory lectures By Anna McKie 7 August
Journal’s plan to review preprints aims to kill ‘desk rejects’ eLife editor says radical shift would help readers judge the real value of research, not just where it is published By Nick Mayo 6 August
Make states match federal investment, says US campus head States have rolled back funding as Washington has stepped in – and this must stop, says Louisiana State president By Paul Basken 6 August
Half of papers describing psychiatry trials ‘spin results’ Overstating the value of an intervention could put patients at risk, say researchers By Chris Havergal 6 August
Foreign graduates deterred from joining US technology start-ups PhD leavers from overseas seek new companies, but can’t accept visa risks By Paul Basken 6 August
Canada sets new equity targets for premier science grants Updated settlement ties racial and gender distribution to national shares of population By Paul Basken 5 August
Baltimore universities struggle to help as Trump attacks city Decades of racial division hindering academia’s ability to alleviate poverty By Paul Basken 5 August
Guardianship-surrendering parents divide US university leaders Manoeuvre seen as ethically flawed but also as a sign of the country’s growing student debt crisis By Paul Basken 2 August
Alaskan regents back consolidation of campuses after cuts Institution hit by 41 per cent budget reduction pins hopes on reducing administrative and academic duplication By Paul Basken 31 July
Trump renews amorphous free speech threat to campuses US president’s agitations seen as having political rather than practical goals By Paul Basken 31 July