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USC Marshall dean exits amid faculty no-confidence push
USC announced that Marshall School of Business Dean Geoffrey Garrett will step down in August, days before faculty were scheduled to vote July 1 on whether to hold a no-confidence vote. The change...
Emory names new Goizueta dean as UCLA leadership shifts
Emory University has selected Sabyasachi “Saby” Mitra as the next John H. Harland Dean of the Goizueta Business School, starting Aug. 1. Mitra, currently dean of the University of Florida’s...
University reshuffles academic units to address budget pressure
The University of Denver is consolidating its academic structures by merging five schools and colleges into two and eliminating five departments while keeping related degree programs in place. The...
DOJ escalates enforcement on race-linked admissions at UC Davis medical school
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that the UC Davis School of Medicine violated federal civil-rights law by using socioeconomic variables as racial proxies in its admissions process. DOJ...
Federal crackdown on race-conscious student success programming at CUNY
The U.S. Department of Justice opened an investigation into City University of New York’s Black Male Initiative, alleging the student success program may violate civil-rights law by providing...
Higher ed governance under political pressure in Texas
The American Association of University Professors announced it is investigating academic freedom and shared governance violations across Texas colleges and universities. AAUP leadership said the...
New Workforce Pell funding expansion targets short-term job training
The federal Workforce Pell expansion would broaden Pell Grants to cover nondegree job training programs as short as eight weeks, and officials say institutions are racing to prepare for...
Course consolidation and faculty layoffs hit workforce planning at The New School
The New School’s faculty union chapter of the American Association of University Professors criticized the university’s layoffs as a major gutting of full-time faculty, calling for reinstatement...
Student and campus safety funding delays remain unresolved in FEMA safe-room dispute
A rural Wisconsin district’s effort to build tornado safe rooms has hit repeated federal setbacks, according to the coverage. Cuba City School District received nearly $9 million in a BRIC program...
Academic freedom and governance collide with new Indiana intellectual-diversity compliance
A professor in Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Social Work lost her job after being investigated under the state’s intellectual-diversity law following a student complaint. Coverage...
Graduate business leadership moves
Emory University named Sabyasachi “Saby” Mitra as the next John H. Harland Dean of the Goizueta Business School, ending a search Provost Badia Ahad launched in February. Mitra, currently dean of...
University academic restructuring under budget pressure
The University of Denver approved a fiscal 2027 budget balanced by leaving some staff positions vacant and reducing expenses, while also announcing a major academic consolidation. DU will combine...
AI in higher-ed learning, governance, and security
In higher education, new agentic AI tools are intensifying disputes over academic integrity and IT accountability, as campuses struggle to distinguish student work from autonomous systems acting...
Canvas platform reliability and operational risk
Instructure’s Canvas remains a critical single point of failure for institutions, as the spring 2026 crash prompted renewed student and IT scrutiny over operational resilience. A new report...
Cybersecurity accountability in LMS ecosystems
A new analysis argues that learning-management cybersecurity accountability can’t end at the vendor boundary—because campuses accumulate years of student data, communications, and operational...
Federal research oversight and peer review constraints
Higher education and research groups escalated objections to a Trump administration plan to tighten oversight of federal research funding, warning that it could sideline traditional peer-review...
Civil rights litigation in medical school admissions
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that the University of California, Davis School of Medicine violated federal anti-discrimination law by using “socioeconomic disadvantage” metrics that DOJ...
Student housing and wellbeing as an institutional lever
A new report argues institutions should treat student housing as a component of wellbeing infrastructure, not just a housing-services line item. It frames burnout in medical and graduate programs...
Enrollment disruption driven by state policy
Kentucky State University projected a sharp enrollment drop tied to a new state law that forces the institution to disenroll students who owe the university money. The university estimates...
Trust and governance reform for boards of trustees
AGB emphasized that rebuilding public trust in higher education starts with governing board capacity—especially trustee orientation and ongoing education. In a CEO update, AGB said boards are...