Associate professor Greg Martin writes on behalf of the Stanford AAUP to condemn the White House's compact on higher education and urge the University to hold strong should its turn arise.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth has said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities detailing policies they should follow to ...

US universities, proposes a restructuring of academia, with consequences that could ripple across the globe, creating ...

Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ votes on roll calls from several budget vetoes made by Gov. Maura Healey ...

India-born Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, are leaving the United States where they are currently working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

MIT’s rejection of the compact marks the first major pushback from a leading university against Trump's education plan.

The deal would see universities cap foreign admissions, restrict protests and adopt a binary definition of gender.

In a letter to the administration, Sally Kornbluth said the proposal would “restrict freedom of expression and our ...

President Sally Kornbluth said some of the policies would restrict MIT's independence and freedom of expression.

President Sally Kornbluth’s decision drew mixed reactions on the campus, while national observers hoped other universities ...

MIT's president said she "cannot support" a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt ...

The compact from the Trump administration looks to provide a handful of universities with funding advantages in exchange for ...