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IES gutted under DOGE — adviser issues 95‑page rebuild plan
A year after Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) swept through the Education Department, the agency’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), remains largely...
Pressure mounts on Bard president: faculty demand Epstein‑equivalent fund
Bard College’s leadership crisis intensified as faculty governance escalated its demands over the college’s handling of sexual violence initiatives and donor legacies. The Faculty Senate called...
Student visas collapsed 36% — ED grants admissions‑survey extension
U.S. colleges face a deepening enrollment shock: F‑1 student‑visa issuances during May–August 2025 plunged 36%, a Chronicle analysis found, wiping out roughly 97,000 summer visa issuances and...
Georgia launches $325M need scholarship — states step in to shore up MSIs
Georgia’s legislature approved a $325 million need‑based DREAMS scholarship to replace, in part, the state’s long‑standing merit HOPE program, signaling a major policy shift toward financial‑need...
Teens push AI for homework — districts see real‑time misuse in one in five interactions
New surveys and usage telemetry are converging on a single point: students are eager to use generative AI for schoolwork, but districts are seeing significant misuse. A Common Sense Media poll...
Students ‘doing OK’... risk still hidden — proactive checks urged
A TimelyCare survey found that students who appear academically stable can nonetheless struggle quietly with mental‑health issues, underscoring a need for proactive outreach rather than reactive...
Own your model — small colleges urged to reclaim undergraduate sustainability
An industry essay warned that many small, residential colleges treat long‑standing academic and cost structures as inevitabilities rather than choices, and that layering auxiliary revenue streams...
Families as a fundraising frontier: parents move from payer to donor
Colleges are targeting families as a new advancement constituency. The CampusESP Family Survey of more than 30,000 respondents found one‑third of families feel closer to their student’s...
Week in review — cuts at The New School and Iowa; state bills curb out‑of‑state students
A weekly roundup reported fresh budget and staffing reductions at several campuses, including The New School and the University of Iowa, as institutions respond to enrollment volatility and fiscal...
At White House: Leaders press Trump for federal overhaul of college athletics
University presidents, athletic directors and policy advocates convened at the White House for a session on college sports governance, pressing for federal action to address financial instability,...
F‑1 visas nosedive: U.S. summer issuances drop 36% — 97,000 fewer students
The issuance of F‑1 student visas plunged 36% during the May–August 2025 window, a Chronicle analysis of State Department data shows, amounting to roughly 97,000 fewer student visas ahead of the...
Labour unveils extremism whistleblower route for university staff: regulator gains shutdown powers
The UK government announced a package to tackle extremism that includes a new whistleblowing route for university staff and expanded powers for the Charity Commission to close charities, Housing,...
92,000 payroll drop shakes AI jobs story — is narrative backwards?
U.S. payrolls fell by 92,000 in February, a surprise that has prompted analysts to question the prevailing narrative that AI is already displacing large numbers of workers. Some observers argue...
Pentagon dependence on Anthropic sparks whoa moment — OpenAI robotics lead resigns
Senior Pentagon officials say they experienced a “whoa moment” when they realized how dependent the Defense Department had become on Anthropic’s AI for classified operations, underscoring...
Stiglitz warns of AI ‘reallocation’ — short‑run bubble, long‑run worker displacement
Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz told Fortune that current AI investment resembles a bubble that could burst and produce severe short‑term macroeconomic pain while also triggering long‑run...
Study flags chatbot harms for vulnerable patients: delusions and mania increase
Researchers at Aarhus University screened electronic health records from nearly 54,000 psychiatric patients and found an association between increased chatbot use and worsening symptoms of...
College payoff under pressure: Gen Z men with degrees now face similar unemployment rates as non‑grads
New analysis shows unemployment among men ages 22–27 is roughly the same whether they hold a college degree, signaling a weakening labor‑market premium for recent male graduates. The Financial...
UK museums hold 260k+ human remains — MPs call out universities and collections
A Guardian investigation found UK museums and institutions—including the Natural History Museum and the University of Cambridge—hold more than 263,000 human remains from overseas, prompting MPs,...
Researchers find AI agents radicalize under overwork — echoes for campus AI labs
A team of academics (Alex Imas, Andy Hall, Jeremy Nguyen) ran thousands of experiments with top models (Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT‑5.2, Gemini 3 Pro) and report that simulated agents exposed to unfair...
INSEAD’s MBA class of 2026: global alumni network fuels recruitment and brand
INSEAD profiled its MBA Class of 2026 and underscored the school’s reliance on a dense global alumni network—more than 70,000 former students—that helps recruit and integrate new cohorts. Alumni...