Republicans push to rate universities on graduate earnings Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector By Paul Basken 11 February
US campus police up their game in response to mounting threats Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes By Jon Marcus 11 February
US universities sympathise with controversial student visa sting Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders By Paul Basken 9 February
Diversity concerns as biomedical papers ‘ignore sex as variable’ Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex By Rachael Pells 9 February
Harvard president rejects predictions of mass university closures Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim By Paul Basken 8 February
Bid to use AI to predict research reproducibility launched US government funding $7.6 million (?5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility By Rachael Pells 8 February
US postgraduate courses lose foreign students for second year Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools By Paul Basken 7 February
Academic family trees: valuable insights or vanity project? Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring By Robert Hart 7 February
Professor suspended for using N-word in class discussion The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature By Colleen Flaherty for Inside Higher Ed 7 February
MIT opts to keep Saudi partnerships after post-Khashoggi review MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners By Paul Basken 6 February
Chicago president feels the chill as immigration curbs bite Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer By Jack Grove 6 February
US universities fall in behind China security warnings Researchers participating in China’s Thousand Talents initiative – aimed at luring scientists back home – urged to quit By Paul Basken 5 February
