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OfS warns: 50 English providers face market exit
England’s higher-education sector is under acute financial stress: the Office for Students told MPs that as many as 50 providers could exit the market within two to three years, with 24 judged at...
Genesis mission: White House orders universities, labs into AI sprint
President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the “Genesis Mission,” directing the Energy Department, national labs and federal science agencies to build a unified digital platform of...
Tenure fights in Texas: review panels and regents clash
Two recent faculty-termination cases in Texas illustrate growing political pressure on campus hiring, curriculum and academic governance. At Texas A&M, the university’s Committee on Academic...
EEOC moves force Penn into a legal spotlight
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal court to compel the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena seeking records and witness access in an EEOC probe of...
Loan caps loom: med and nursing pipelines at risk
A provision tucked into recent federal legislation will cap graduate borrowing and end the open-ended Grad PLUS program next July, higher-education advocates warn, threatening the affordability of...
Visa rules bite: international enrollment falls as campus immigration risks rise
A new survey by NAFSA and partners found U.S. universities reporting widespread declines in international student enrollment this year, especially at the graduate level, with institutions citing...
HEC Paris bets €300m on campus rebuild and social mission
HEC Paris unveiled its 'New Responsibilities' strategy, a sweeping institutional plan that anchors a €300 million fundraising campaign to expand societal engagement, diversify admissions pathways,...
Columbia pivots MBA to AI: Poets&Quants names program of the year
Columbia Business School was named Poets&Quants’ MBA Program of the Year for its aggressive integration of artificial intelligence into pedagogy, a voice-powered learning platform (CAiSEY) and a...
First-gen share slips: colleges must scale emergency aid
A Pell Institute brief found the share of first-generation students in U.S. degree-granting institutions fell 13% from 1996 to 2020 even as overall bachelor’s attainment rose—signalling that while...
Labor takes over $1.4B grants — rollout snarled by tech failures and secrecy
The Education Department’s experiment to shift administration of federal career, technical and adult-education grants to the Labor Department has hit operational turbulence. Politico and Reuters...
Moody’s flags higher-education outlook as negative — ratings pressure ahead
Moody’s Investors Service projected a negative outlook for the higher-education sector, citing a mix of federal policy risks, rising operating costs and the loss of grant funding. The credit...
Florida system to cut 18 programs — productivity review targets low‑enrolment degrees
The State University System of Florida plans to eliminate at least 18 academic programs and suspend eight more after a systemwide productivity review identified 214 underperforming programs,...
HEC Paris: €300m campaign and MBA overhaul — campus rebuild and AI focus
HEC Paris unveiled a sweeping five-year strategy centered on social engagement and impact, anchored by a €300 million fundraising goal that will fund a campus rebuild and new programs through...
NAFSA survey: Many U.S. campuses report falling international enrollment
A new report from NAFSA, Oxford Test of English and Studyportals found that nearly half of surveyed U.S. institutions saw declines in undergraduate international enrollment this year and 63%...
New federal loan caps risk shrinking physician and nurse pipelines
A technical but consequential change to federal student-loan policy will end open-ended Grad PLUS lending next July and cap graduate borrowers—including medical students—at $50,000 per year and...
EEOC subpoenas Penn — university resists handing over Jewish faculty and student lists
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a federal court to compel the University of Pennsylvania to comply with a subpoena in its probe of alleged antisemitic discrimination, while...
Academic‑freedom fights escalate in Texas — mixed rulings on faculty dismissals
Two high‑profile faculty‑dismissal cases in Texas produced contrasting outcomes this month, underscoring political pressure on campus speech and due process. At Texas A&M, a university committee...
Indiana may block degree proposals that don’t pledge ‘core American values’ — faculty alarmed
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education added a civics‑oriented question to its new degree‑proposal form that asks programs to demonstrate how they 'cultivate civic responsibility and...
First‑gen enrollment falls 13% since 1996 — Pell Institute links drop to rising degree attainment
A Pell Institute brief found the share of first‑generation students at degree‑granting Title IV institutions declined 13% between 1996 and 2020 even as overall U.S. bachelor’s attainment rose 14...
Education Department Outsources Grants — NDAs Stoke Legal Alarm
The U.S. Department of Education this week finalized agreements to move dozens of grant programs to other federal agencies while using nondisclosure agreements in talks, prompting scrutiny from...