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UNC probe completed — findings withheld after $1.2M review
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill concluded an outside investigation into problems at its School of Civic Life and Leadership but declined to release the report. Chancellor Lee H....
Pentagon severs Ivy ties: colleges brace for program cuts
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented Pentagon ties with higher education, expelling more than a dozen elite colleges from a military fellowship and signaling further realignments in...
Anthropic designated a risk — company vows legal fight
The Department of Defense has formally notified Anthropic that its Claude models are a supply‑chain risk, a designation that can restrict use of the company’s products by defense contractors and...
AI on campus: near‑universal use exposes policy gaps
Generative AI is now effectively standard practice across higher education: a Coursera/Coursera‑sourced report finds nearly universal use by students and faculty and strong student demand for...
Graduate lending overhaul: caps and credential tests reshaping budgets
Federal rule changes eliminated Graduate PLUS loans for new borrowers and capped non‑professional graduate borrowing at $20,500 annually, a move that will force many programs to rethink pricing,...
Oregon orders college review — restructuring and emergency aid on the table
Oregon’s Senate passed a measure requiring the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to review the state’s seven universities and 17 community colleges and recommend structural changes to put...
Campus finances tighten: layoffs and asset sales accelerate
The New School said it will shrink its workforce by roughly 7% through voluntary buyouts as part of a plan to close persistent structural deficits and consolidate academic units. President Joel...
Course bottlenecks meet a changing professoriate — degree completion delayed
A new report highlights rising course “shutouts” that block students from required classes and extend time‑to‑degree and cost. Administrators say constrained course availability exacerbates...
Phones, AI and student well‑being — campuses grapple with digital harms
College leaders and health experts are treating excessive phone use as a student‑health issue, urging time‑blocking, device boundaries and new campus practices to protect sleep and attention....
Rising cyberthreats and surveillance trade‑offs test campus safety
K‑12 and higher‑education institutions remain prime targets for cyberattacks, with K‑12 incidents comprising the majority of education sector breaches last year according to independent security...
Pentagon feud drags universities into AI supply‑chain fight
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has publicly targeted research and vendor ties between the Pentagon and university-linked AI programs, creating confusion over which campus partnerships face...
Education secretary vows to dismantle agency — colleges brace
U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon has reiterated plans that could sharply curtail or eliminate the Department of Education, pressing changes from Title IX enforcement to FAFSA overhaul....
Oregon orders system review as campuses face restructuring
Oregon’s legislature passed a measure directing the state’s Higher Education Coordinating Commission to review all public colleges and propose restructuring and program consolidations by April...
New School cuts jobs and reshapes academics — more pain ahead
The New School in New York announced a 7% workforce reduction through voluntary buyouts as it confronts multi‑year deficits and falling enrollment; university leaders signaled further cuts and...
Graduate lending overhaul threatens health‑care and specialized programs
Federal changes to graduate student lending caps — eliminating Graduate PLUS for new borrowers and capping non‑professional graduate loans at $20,500 annually — are forcing institutions to...
AI is ubiquitous on campus — leaders scramble to govern it
New surveys and campus reports show generative AI has moved from experiment to everyday practice: students and faculty report near‑universal use and strong interest in formal AI instruction, while...
Cheating and falsified citations: journals and classrooms under strain
Academic publishers and campus instructors report a rise in submissions containing AI‑generated fake citations and new forms of cheating that bypass traditional safeguards. Journal editors say...
Political pressure reshapes diversity pipelines — the PhD Project rethinks ties
Michigan Ross and other institutions have severed or scaled back relationships with diversity‑pipeline organizations like the PhD Project after federal scrutiny of targeted recruitment programs....
Union rollbacks and labor wins reshape campus bargaining
Federal and institutional decisions are producing mixed signals for campus labor: the NIH announced it will no longer recognize a union of early‑career researchers, while recent campus bargaining...
Business‑school leadership moves: deans named and searches launched
Business schools continued leadership turnover: the University of Georgia’s Terry College removed the ‘interim’ title from Santanu Chatterjee and installed him as permanent dean, while UVA Darden...