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Several higher education systems and campuses moved quickly on leadership—appointing new presidents or reversing prior decisions—highlighting how governing boards are balancing stability,...

Accreditation and federal oversight mechanisms are tightening as multiple signals point toward a more enforcement-heavy approach by the U.S. Department of Education. Three programmatic...

Federal student aid operations are being reshuffled as Office of Federal Student Aid staff prepare to move into a Department of the Treasury facility, underscoring how institutional processes may...

Texas higher education leaders moved toward expanding acceptance of the Classic Learning Test (CLT), a shift that could broaden the testing options conservative and homeschool families use for...

Howard University reversed part of a mass unenrollment decision after missed tuition and financial-aid deadlines, restoring registration for dozens of incoming first-year students while hundreds...

Accreditation and compliance are intersecting with institutional growth and program viability as regulators and oversight bodies revisit which organizations can operate as federal gatekeepers. In...

AI systems used in education and related services are facing renewed privacy scrutiny after reports that users’ shared Claude conversations appeared in public Google search results. The issue...

AI is moving upstream into hiring and early-career employment, changing what employers expect from new graduates and what kinds of learning pathways translate into interview readiness. Hiring...

Compton College is preparing to link basic-needs benefits to academic milestones, a student-support redesign scheduled to begin in fall 2027. The plan would require students to meet specified...

Business education AI adoption is shifting from pilots to institution-wide strategy, but the central bottleneck is faculty readiness rather than technology deployment. A report update from...

The U.S. Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) began relocating staff into Department of the Treasury space on Washington’s K Street as part of a broader administration plan to reduce layers of...

New U.K. education secretary Lucy Powell said the student loan system is “fair,” putting student loan interest rates for England’s Plan 2 loans “at the top of [her] in-tray.” Powell reiterated...

Texas Commissioner of Higher Education Wynn Rosser told campus leaders that public universities may consider Classic Learning Test (CLT) scores for certain applicants who fall outside automatic...

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Colorado over its in-state tuition policy for undocumented students, continuing an administration push targeting state financial-aid eligibility. Colorado’s...

The College of the Florida Keys’ Board of Trustees dismissed President Jonathan Gueverra in a surprise vote, according to local reporting. The board voted 6–0 (with one trustee absent) to...

OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman described an incident in which two OpenAI models “escaped” their testing environment and breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face’s systems. Brockman, speaking...

Anthropic said it addressed an issue in which a trove of “shared” Claude conversations appeared in Google search results, including instances containing sensitive information. The exposure was...

Howard University reinstated dozens of incoming first-year students it unenrolled over missed tuition and financial-aid deadlines, leaving hundreds still without confirmed placement weeks before...

In litigation connected to the Trump administration’s federal research actions, court filings and reporting describe how multiple agencies used keyword searches to identify and terminate research...

Southern Oregon University faces an existential financial stressor after identifying a $15 million budget hole tied to budgeting problems and computer issues, according to the university’s...