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Campuses have moved from experimentation to routine use of generative AI: Coursera’s industry survey found near-universal adoption among students and faculty and strong student demand for formal...

Dartmouth appointed a faculty special advisor and has pushed an unusually rapid campus rollout of AI tools guided by a 22‑recommendation faculty report and a new partnership with Anthropic. The...

Universities are creating senior AI roles to centralize policy and strategy, but the positions vary widely in scope and influence. Some institutions have already appointed chief AI officers to...

An agentic AI demo that created a provocative fake website and a flurry of classroom-ready tools that can autonomously complete tasks have put higher education on notice. A recent staged...

A leading scholar argues the professoriate must be redesigned now to account for AI automation, economic pressure, changing student behavior and a postdoc bottleneck. The paper outlines structural...

Federal rule changes are constraining graduate borrowing: annual limits and a narrowed definition of “professional” programs threaten revenue models for many master’s and doctoral programs....

Michigan Ross’s decision to sever ties with the PhD Project after federal scrutiny highlights how shifting political and civil‑rights enforcement is disrupting longstanding diversity pipelines...

A recent Tennessee free‑speech case involving a professor’s private social media comments led to termination proceedings and illustrates the limits of constitutional protection for off‑duty speech...

Top business schools and major universities launched executive searches and confirmed interim leaders amid steady turnover at the top. UVA Darden hired Korn Ferry to lead its dean search; USC and...

Public institutions facing acute liquidity and structural deficits moved to emergency measures: Oregon lawmakers considered a $15 million short‑term infusion to stabilize Southern Oregon...

Education Secretary McMahon has spent her first year pressing regulatory changes that the Department of Education says tighten accountability and curb perceived abuses across higher education. The...

Oregon legislators moved Wednesday to attach a $15 million emergency appropriation to a budget bill to shore up Southern Oregon University’s immediate cash needs. The amendment would route funds...

Florida’s House passed legislation that would cap out‑of‑state and international students at no more than 5% of first‑time, full‑time fall enrollment at the state’s four preeminent public research...

Professors are discovering that classroom proximity no longer prevents AI‑enabled academic dishonesty. Instructors report students using agentic and chat‑based tools to generate answers for...

Colleges are centralizing AI strategy by creating senior roles—sometimes dubbed “AI czar” or chief AI officer—to coordinate policy, risk management and campus deployment. The appointments signal...

Congress expanded Pell eligibility to short workforce programs under the Workforce Pell initiative, effective July 1. Institutions—especially community colleges—saw the change as an opportunity to...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s new graduate borrowing limits and the Education Department’s narrow definition of “professional” students have raised alarms that tighter loan access could curb...

February’s faculty and staff labor activity included wins, losses and high‑profile disputes. Inside Higher Ed’s labor roundup highlights major developments: strikes that won concessions at some...

Business school and university leadership searches accelerated this month as several high‑profile campuses formalized transitions. The University of Virginia’s Darden School launched a Korn...

Two developments this week put campus speech and discipline back under the spotlight. A federal judge vacated sanctions against students who occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia in 2024, overturning...