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
With relief now unlikely before this month¡¯s autumn admissions offers, top US campus talks of online and deferred acceptances
Obsessed with graduate employment, US universities are doing little to improve students¡¯ ability to think independently, a major new study has concluded. Paul Basken speaks to the Harvard academics behind the decade-long investigation and hears how student learning can be repaired
Selective institutions again face backsliding in perennial challenge of guessing how many admitted students will accept
After helping to build version of Silicon Valley near Moscow, Reif calls Russian invasion unacceptable
Seattle institution pays back $5 million rather than accept free speech limits, but faculty fault refund as unwarranted
Move by historically black Paul Quinn College aims to break generational persistence of poverty
US ends Trump-era approach after scores of arrests, repeated failed prosecutions and growing criticisms
Lawmakers moving to block lessons on race and politics after successful efforts to police school curricula
Annual survey of 720 campuses pegs average stockpile at $1.1 billion, up 35 per cent in year, with student aid benefiting
A year into office, head of California State University system felled after helping hide sexual abuse allegations against administrator
City residents fighting student overcrowding win order that would slice planned freshmen class by a third
Retracted support for star professor demonstrates deep persistence of faculty attitudes that perpetuate harassment, plaintiffs claim
Growing use of third-party services seen aiding employee-students find their options, although with suspicions of hidden costs
Venezuelan¡¯s decade-long tenure at global research leader marked by huge scientific and economic growth, as well as Epstein scandal
Todd Huston, while senior vice-president at SAT creator, led Indiana lawmakers in trying to restrict classroom teaching
Covid lockdowns, provincial budget cuts and political interference driving strike activity among faculty feeling disrespect
White House tried to keep MIT-Harvard professor in top post after he apologised for belittling female colleagues
Losses perceived for holistic views as communications modes show humanists embracing data-heavy styles of the hard sciences
Measure to expand NSF and retain foreign scholars with scientific expertise faces showdown over Senate¡¯s even tougher approach to China
Top congressional Democrat urges Biden to reverse Keiser University¡¯s decade-old conversion to non-profit status
Professor counts Asian Americans as winning 3 per cent of nation¡¯s major biomedical prizes, prompting promises to do better
Conservative¡¯s appointment as constitutional studies chief derailed over demeaning Biden plan for black female Supreme Court nominee
Nearly 20 HBCUs get phoned-in threats at start of Black History Month, bringing lockdowns, remote classes and vows of resilience
As leadership vacancies rise in factious state, lawmakers push measure that academics fear will add dangerous secrecy to process of filling them
