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The Department of Defense announced it will end all graduate‑level professional military education, fellowships and certificate programs for active‑duty service members at Harvard University...

Columbia University’s faculty committee delivered initial recommendations that stop short of disbanding the Middle East studies department but call for expanding hires across the discipline. The...

Stanford University announced cuts to a fellowship program intended for underrepresented students and colleagues, part of a broader wave of program reductions and reconfigurations at elite...

Financial distress deepened on multiple campuses this week as institutions moved to restructure operations and shed personnel. Hampshire College warned auditors it risks closure if it cannot...

FAFSA completion rates for the high‑school class of 2026 have surged: more than 1.5 million seniors filed forms through January, a 51.9% increase over last year, placing the cohort on track to set...

Computer science programs and classroom practice are adjusting to an AI‑driven labor market. Departments nationwide report falling undergraduate and graduate CS enrollments as employers change...

Faculty at Colorado State University publicly rebuked the system’s decision to run an internal‑only search for the next chancellor, calling the compressed timeline and the current chancellor’s...

As spring career fairs bring government recruiters to campus, students at multiple institutions have pushed back against immigration‑agency recruiting amid aggressive federal deportation policies....

The Department of Defense notified Harvard that it will cut all graduate‑level professional military training, fellowships and certificate programs for active‑duty service members beginning in the...

Stanford University has cut a fellowship program aimed at underrepresented students, part of a wave of program changes at campuses responding to political pressure over identity‑conscious...

The federal government conceded it violated a court order when Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza to Honduras, but declined a judge’s...

Congressional appropriations bills signed in early February preserved funding for many U.S. Department of Education programs despite White House moves to curtail the agency. Lawmakers retained...

FAFSA completion for the high‑school class of 2026 has jumped sharply: 38.6% of seniors had filed by the end of January, a 51.9% increase over last year and the largest year‑over‑year gain since...

New provisions in the Republicans’ overhaul of student loans — including a "do no harm" rule that could cut federal loan access for programs whose graduates earn less than high‑school graduates —...

Hampshire College faces a potential shutdown unless it can refinance $24.9 million in debt and remedy negative cash flow, auditors warn; bondholders and declining net assets have left the small...

Federal research funding remains protected against proposed cuts, but policy and personnel instability threaten university research operations. The National Institutes of Health avoided direct...

New data show historically underrepresented faculty are disproportionately concentrated in adjunct roles: adjuncts now comprise roughly 40% of the professoriate and are more likely to be Black or...

As career fairs invite federal agencies, students at multiple campuses are resisting Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection recruitment on campus. Organizers cite...

The Department of Defense announced it will discontinue all graduate‑level professional military training, fellowships and certificate programs for active‑duty service members at Harvard beginning...

The Justice Department acknowledged that immigration authorities deported Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza in violation of a federal court order but told a U.S. district judge that...