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
Monica Bertagnolli, former Harvard surgeon, sees critical moment to improve both equity and accuracy in multibillion-dollar study investments
Leaders of three elite universities berated in appearance before lawmakers alarmed by protests
In culmination of decade-long pressure, NCAA leader suggests minimum annual compensation of $30,000 for top sports players
Loss of foundational Southern California alliance highlights institutions feeling they can now competently provide their own virtual courses
Persistent classroom absences attributed to online hype, mental stress, adjunct reliance and job-centric mindsets
Ivy League university denies Joan Donovan¡¯s claim that huge donation turned leaders against her
As state higher education leaders count growing share of support from gambling, experts detail reasons why they should be more alarmed
Long series of demonstrations aims to resurrect troubled lecturer, largely because students value her bigger understandings
Brown University becomes centrepiece for ending financial ties to Israel, after three Palestinian college students shot in Vermont
Johns Hopkins team uses salary data to highlight longstanding failures across education and workplaces to provide equal opportunities for career advancement
The Georgetown professor of Middle East and Islamic politics talks of hating his parents¡¯ return to Iran after the 1979 revolution ¨C and crediting it with his life¡¯s mission of advancing democracy and human rights
Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay
Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short
More probes expected after flood of complaints over demonstrations tied to Israel-Gaza conflict
Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates
Education a better approach than ¡®political censorship¡¯, universities told
Leftist faculty and high overseas enrolments also targeted in congressional hearing
After historically black institutions spend years seeking funding worthy of R1 status, main higher education grouping agrees to loosen the terms of inclusion
University investigates Berislav Zlokovic after his lab members describe image and notebook manipulation, and warn of danger to stroke patients from resulting medical trial
Combining a series of methods for boosting research reproducibility found to produce huge gains in overall success
State disavows its own idea that professors can¡¯t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit
Centre for Antiracist Research doesn¡¯t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup
Federal case, one of several threats to nation¡¯s $16 billion college sports enterprise, could bring huge shift in power to students
Campuses appear to be keeping their pandemic-era test-optional policies, but hesitate to distance themselves even further
