Latest Higher Education News

Alphabet’s latest earnings update reframed the AI capex debate: Google Cloud is now a much larger share of the company’s revenue than most investors previously modeled. Alphabet reported Google...

Meta has quietly restarted stablecoin payments, rolling out USDC payouts for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines. The program runs through Facebook’s payout platform and uses the...

The U.S. Department of Education announced a probe into Stanford University over alleged racial discrimination connected to a K–12 teacher certification support program. The investigation centers...

Students who survived a December shooting at Brown University filed lawsuits alleging negligent security and premises liability. The complaints argue that campus building access and surveillance...

CHEA launched an Accreditor Leadership Roundtable to strengthen coordination and strategic engagement among accreditor presidents. CHEA said the initiative is designed as an action-oriented...

Higher-education negotiators are pushing back against a Trump administration proposal that would require accreditors to take stronger positions tied to student success, costs, and academic freedom...

Saint Augustine’s University filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in North Carolina as the school seeks a financial restructuring while addressing accreditation-related constraints. The...

Graduate-student unions are demanding colleges protect international students as Trump-era immigration enforcement expands. At Harvard, graduate workers went on strike with contract demands that...

Connecticut State interim chancellor Susan H. Greenberg resigned, according to reporting. The leadership change adds to state-system governance volatility as colleges and universities continue to...

The University of Wisconsin–Madison received $100 million in private gift commitments for a new College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence, scheduled to launch July 1, 2026. The initiative...

Graduate student unions and bargaining teams are escalating demands tied to immigration crackdowns, seeking contractual protections for international students amid shifting federal enforcement...

Higher education negotiators are responding to the Trump administration’s proposed accreditation overhaul, arguing it would force accreditors to take stronger positions tied to student success,...

England’s Office for Students took another reputational hit after the High Court rejected its bid to fine the University of Sussex over freedom-of-speech concerns tied to the university’s trans...

CHEA and partner accreditors are creating a new leadership forum to coordinate strategy across accreditation organizations as policy shifts accelerate. CHEA announced the Accreditor Leadership...

U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon faced lawmakers’ scrutiny as her agency’s FY27 budget request advances proposals to dismantle programs and shift responsibilities to other federal...

A federal court blocked the Education Department from enforcing a new race and sex data survey deadline for additional higher education institutions as a lawsuit proceeds. U.S. District Judge F....

The University of Pennsylvania won a temporary stay in litigation involving an EEOC demand for extensive data on Jewish employees, including potentially de-anonymized responses tied to campus...

Fifteen historically Black colleges and universities formed a new coalition aimed at moving members toward Research 1 classification by pairing with leading research universities. The Association...

Saint Augustine’s University filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after accreditation-related financial challenges, triggering a high-stakes restructuring plan while it signals it will...

Campus deferred maintenance has reached record levels as colleges confront a mismatch between space and enrollment and a sharp slowdown in new construction. Gordian’s “State of Facilities in...