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This study presents indicators of open access at the institutional level for universities worldwide. By combining data from Web of Science, Unpaywall and the Leiden Ranking disambiguation of institutions, it tracks OA coverage of universities' output for 963 institutions.
Study finds the concept of faculty fit in hiring is vague and potentially detrimental to diversity efforts.
The new Department of Homeland Security rule prohibits international students from returning to or remaining in the United States if their colleges adopt an online-only instruction model for the fall.
New research suggests that for a large campus dealing with COVID-19, accurate testing and limits on class size and social contact may be of critical importance.
Why aren't more administrators who say they support diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives reaching out to their black colleagues now?
College leaders seeking to survive and thrive in a post-pandemic environment have no choice but to reassess and redefine their value proposition, argue professors.
Nearly three-quarters of UK universities slipped down while Asian institutions rose.
With student enrolment projected to fall, some US and UK institutions have halted recruitment.
How virtual classrooms and dire finances could alter academia: the first chapter in a week-long series on science after the pandemic.
What academic workplaces can do.
There will be no face-to-face lectures in the next academic year due to coronavirus, the university says.
Institutions are letting their financial and reputational worries cloud their judgment about when they can safely reopen.
Young people think of college as an investment in their future. Now that future is changing in ways they can't apprehend.
Instead of supporting the 54% of staff on insecure contracts, many managers are using the pandemic to sack them.
The new and improved Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020 were published this week with as much online fanfare as THE could muster. Unfortunately,
Andy Westwood sets out the not-insignificant challenges that the government now faces in deciding what it wants from universities after the pandemic.
To create a better post-COVID-19 world requires democratic civic universities dedicated to producing knowledge and educating ethical, empathetic stude...
Do students really need a four-year residential experience?
Universities across Europe are grappling with digital problems, after the COVID-19 pandemic forced campuses to shut down and move research and teaching online. Digital capabilities are not distributed equally across European universities, and deficiencies have delayed implementing systems for online teaching. Bandwidth and student access to computers is also an issue.
Non-tenure track faculty at community and city colleges across the country told Motherboard they have not received sufficient pay, training, or equipment to teach classes online-and the consequences could be devastating for students.
The university analysts at QS have published their 2020 rankings by subject.
Adult learning is at a 20-year low because mature students can't study flexibly. This must change
Some students do feel political pressure from their professors, but few change their views.
This report shows the results of a survey conducted in spring 2019 among all people who received a PhD in political science from a Swiss university during the last eleven years (2008 to 2018) and among postdocs working in a Swiss university in June 2019. Thus, this survey sheds light on the experiences and career paths of both postdocs and doctors in political science who left academia. Moreover, it compares the results regarding postdocs with a similar study carried out in 2012.
The incident raises important questions about how institutions handle accusations of harassment that occurred at different universities - particularly in the #MeToo era.
Experiments lost as labs remain closed; scientific meetings canceled or postponed.
Academic scientists and research institutes are increasingly being evaluated using digital metrics, from bibliometrics to patent counts. These metrics are often framed, by science policy analysts, economists of science as well as funding agencies, as objective and universal proxies for scientific worth, potential, and productivity.
Nearly a third of universities have used non-disclosure contracts for student grievances since 2016.
Academic systems rely on the existence of a supply of "outsiders" ready to forgo wages and employment security in exchange for the prospect of uncertain security, prestige, freedom and reasonably high salaries that tenured positions entail.
Academics say case of Dr Asiya Islam, turned down after 10 years in UK, gives the lie to assurances Britain is open to experts.
