Paul Basken joined Times Higher Education as North America editor in September 2018. He was previously a government policy and science reporter with The Chronicle of Higher Education, where he won an annual National Press Club award for exclusives. He founded the State Department bureau at Bloomberg News, was a White House and international correspondent with United Press International, and serves on the editorial advisory board of ASEE¡¯s Prism magazine.
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Articles by Paul Basken
As loss in Harvard and UNC cases seems likely, dozens of top corporations argue in filings that they do better with diverse workforces
Judicial leader of campaign to end abortion rights abandons constitutional law seminar at George Washington University
California continues trailblazing push with major publishers but sees fundamental cost problem still unresolved
Administration nears completion of regulatory overhaul with new rules on student aid, non-profit conversions and prison recruiting
Answering lawsuit, Biden administration agrees ¨C for now ¨C that native speakers can get full credit for foreign language mastery
Difficulties defining who has indigenous heritage complicates efforts to stop some profiting from made-up affiliations
Prospect of huge payout grows as Biden administration backs student claim that elite campuses colluded to hold down financial aid
Decade-long study of scientists¡¯ output and attitudes produces book on why structural tactics to tackle gender and race inequalities fail
Successful replication efforts heavily tied to whether original research team allowed a role, finds study of contentious psychology field
Decades or centuries needed if progress continues at its current pace, consultancy firm concludes
Surprise insolvency has brought campus resignations and nationwide labour stress
Leading US public institution, six months after firing Schlissel over affair claims, gets top academic voice on equity from UBC
With SAT and ACT already losing acceptance because of inequities, GAO details cost-related struggle of students to gain needed accommodations
Rebecca Blank, who was until recently head of Wisconsin¡¯s flagship campus, to return to state to fight aggressive form of disease
After 80 per cent gain in youth voting for last midterm congressional election cycle, Supreme Court decision seen as driving interest even higher
Professors sanctioned for vaccine discussions as politicians seen gearing up for US-style assault on academic rights
Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania hold up state¡¯s budget as part of demand that university gets no money if valued research involving aborted tissue persists
As enrolments rebound after Covid, students from biggest African nation found to face tougher conditions on testing, financing, visas and admissions
¡®The current court has clearly shown its willingness to directly overturn past precedents in order to achieve conservative policy goals, and I don¡¯t see why this case would be different,¡¯ says sociologist
Latin American leader aims to hire 100 elite faculty, drawing needed talent to developing world
Estimated 180,000 students ¨C mostly low-income women ¨C face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare
Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt
Administration moves to reverse Trump mandate for in-person hearings and expand protections to transgender students
Two-thirds of institutions responding to IIE survey report increase in interest
