Bethe was just one of dozens of academics pulled from elite American research universities into wartime service, applying their intellectual training to solve critical national security challenges.

The Trump administration is trying to fix what ails American universities by freezing billions of dollars in pledged research grants due to be paid to Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Cornell, and other ...

While other countries may fill the void, he said, the loss of American research and expertise will affect the entire world. An ecologist and professor from East Carolina University sets up a ...

They also know that American universities often bent with the prevailing winds and justified limits to freedom in the name of security. During the First World War, universities invoked the Espionage ...

Advocates such as Lynn Pasquerella of the American Association of Colleges and Universities suggest that Harvard’s boldness could embolden other institutions to defend academic freedom more ...

In a sweeping assertion of federal power barely months after returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has begun reshaping American higher education by targeting elite universities with ...

Late last year, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) slammed the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression in an unusual social media exchange. “FIRE receives major funding ...

American universities including Harvard are under pressure from Trump to give the federal government the power to vet admissions and influence hiring, as his administration cuts funding to elite ...

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Tencent, which the Department of Defense recently designated as an arm of the Chinese military, employs hundreds of graduates from elite American universities. The U.S ...

All students at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico ... to monitor international students’ status and enrollment in American universities.

By Alan Blinder The Trump administration is seeking to exert extraordinary influence over American universities by withholding the kind of federal financial support that has flowed to campuses for ...

When my university, Columbia, recently capitulated to President Donald Trump’s $400 million ultimatum, I felt a creeping ...