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Major higher education associations are urging Congress to move forward with the College Transparency Act, which would overturn a long-standing ban on the federal government collecting...

Texas community colleges warned that a performance-based funding model built on student outcomes is entering a period of instability after the state’s coordinating board revised formula weights....

The Department of Education’s new program-level earnings accountability rules are approaching, and institutions now have a narrow window to understand which programs carry Title IV risk. A...

AI lab employees and senior executives are asking Washington to help build technical and governance tools that could “pace” frontier AI development if needed. A statement titled “Pacing the...

Higher education IT leaders are increasingly looking to AI not for new academic missions but for operational reliability—especially uptime, user experience, and cost control. A new industry focus...

A new federal loan-limit proration rule is triggering concern among financial aid professionals over how Education will interpret and enforce student borrowing limits. Aid officers say the...

A cyber-attack on the U.K. Department for Education (DfE) has put hundreds of thousands of records into the scope of remediation and regulatory scrutiny. The department confirmed hackers obtained...

A new policy argument pushes transfer reform beyond articulation agreements by using recognition to drive collective improvement in community college-to-bachelor pathways. The piece, “Beyond...

Faculty speech restrictions are again in focus after West Point agreed not to challenge a court ruling involving a faculty gag order. The reporting says West Point will not fight the court...

Three programmatic accrediting bodies have withdrawn from federal recognition, escalating uncertainty about accreditation oversight and federal gatekeeping. The report states that the Midwifery...

Lawmakers are weighing whether to expand federal access to student-level outcomes data as the College Transparency Act heads toward Senate consideration. The proposed change would lift the...

Howard University’s interim president Wayne Frederick said the institution reinstated more than 200 students and is revising communication processes after the university previously disenrolled...

A new planning guide is telling colleges they must prepare now for the Department of Education’s forthcoming earnings accountability rules under Title IV. The program-level earnings test will be...

Accreditation’s federal recognition pipeline is moving again, with multiple programmatic accreditors withdrawing from federal recognition amid escalating standards. Three programmatic...

The UK Department for Education (DfE) confirmed a cyberattack that resulted in about 607,000 records being accessed, including telephone numbers and email addresses tied to individuals and...

A rural upstate New York school district paused plans to deploy an AI-powered humanoid robot after public backlash raised concerns about student data privacy and the vendor’s corporate ties. The...

A federal judge permanently blocked Illinois laws that allow some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition and access state scholarships and aid. U.S. District Judge David W. Dugan ruled that...

Business schools are moving from AI pilots toward institution-wide teaching strategy, but a new report places faculty development at the center of whether programs actually work in classrooms....

Colleges are redesigning the path to a degree with new credit structures, transfer reforms, and apprenticeship-aligned coursework intended to connect learning to credentials and careers more...

A new U.S. mental health and substance use report shows encouraging declines in several adolescent substance-use and mental-health indicators even as officials and researchers stress the need for...