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Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes is the author of the University Ranking Newsletter.

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TANX4K Italy - May 2019: Old generation computer destroyed and abandoned in an old dirty warehouse with no people.

The Review | Essay

The Decline of the Great American Research University

By Richard Holmes November 10, 2025

For years, Chinese universities have been gaining on — and surpassing — Western institutions.

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Former Auburn Tigers quarterback Cam Newton looks on from the stands in the first quarter between the Auburn Tigers and the Georgia Bulldogs at Jordan-Hare Stadium on October 11, 2025 in Auburn, Alabama.

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How SEC Universities Won the Enrollment Wars

Illustration of a Gold Seal sticker embossed with President Trump's face

Regulatory Clash

Trump’s Higher-Ed Policy Fight

A bouquet of flowers rests on snow, Sunday, Dec. 14, 2025, on the campus of Brown University not far from where a shooting took place, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Campus Safety

No Suspects Named in Brown U. Shooting That Killed 2, Wounded 9

Several hundred protesters marched outside 66 West 12th Street in New York City at a rally against cuts at the New School on December 10, 2025.

Finance & Operations

‘We’re Being DOGE-ed’: Sweeping Buyout Plan Rattles the New School’s Faculty

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Students protest against the war in Gaza on the anniversary of the Hamas attack on Israel at Columbia University in New York, New York, on Monday, October 7, 2024. One year ago today Hamas breached the wall containing Gaza and attacked Israeli towns and military installations, killing around 1200 Israelis and taking 250 hostages, and sparking a war that has over the last year killed over 40,000 Palestinians and now spilled over into Lebanon. Photographer: Victor J. Blue for The Washington Post via Getty Images

The Review | Opinion

The Fraught Task of Hiring Pro-Zionist Professors

By Jacques Berlinerblau

Photo-based illustration of a Greek bust of a young lady from the House of Dionysos with her face partly covered by a laptop computer and that portion of her face rendered in binary code.

The Review | Essay

A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?

By Sheila Liming, Catherine A. Evans

Vector illustration of a suited man fixing the R, which has fallen, in an archway sign that says "UNIVERSITY."

The Review | Essay

Why Flagships Are Winning

By Ian F. McNeely

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