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Court orders restoration of NEH humanities grants after unconstitutional terminations
A federal judge ordered the restoration of millions in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, ruling that the mass termination of more than 1,400 approved awards was unconstitutional and...
Bowie State plans major layoffs amid budget deficit and enrollment decline
Bowie State University announced plans to eliminate 79 jobs through layoffs and structural reorganizations, citing an $18 million projected budget deficit for fiscal 2027 amid declining...
University of California Irvine reduces graduate tuition to fit federal loan caps
UC Irvine is lowering tuition for two business graduate programs after federal changes reduced the amount most graduate students can borrow through federal loans. The university said the Flex...
Banning phones: large-scale study finds test-score effects near zero
A new working paper using data from 4,600 schools finds that bans on phones and other electronic devices in classrooms produced virtually no net change to test scores, with effects described as...
Student success model shows stronger transfer and completion via embedded community colleges
A growing network of community colleges embedded within four-year universities is producing stronger pathways to bachelor’s degrees for first-generation and minority students, according to a...
Artificial intelligence adoption on campus and enrollment analytics push
A new higher education report says AI use for enrollment and student success is accelerating, with most enrollment leaders already experimenting or operationalizing predictive and prescriptive...
US grad-school labor and operations: Kentucky to shed Aramark food-service jobs
The University of Kentucky faces large-scale operational layoffs affecting dining and campus services personnel after a partnership with Aramark Campus ends June 30. A federal WARN notice says 926...
Ed tech cybersecurity outage strikes at peak assessment time
Instructure confirmed Canvas disruptions tied to a second ShinyHunters-linked incident within days, forcing colleges to pause systems and revise final-exam schedules. As institutions closed the...
Public university budget stress accelerates staffing cuts
Bowie State University announced it will eliminate 79 jobs as it faces an estimated $18 million FY2027 budget deficit amid declining enrollment, rising costs, and reduced state support. University...
AI-enabled admissions tools raise fairness concerns for low-income applicants
A new analysis of tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective college found rising use of homogeneous language after AI tools became available in 2022, with an observed pattern tied to...
Federal humanities grant terminations struck down as unconstitutional
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s cancellation of more than 1,400 previously approved National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grants was unconstitutional, ordering the cuts...
Graduate loan limits reshape tuition pricing decisions
UC Irvine is cutting tuition for two business programs in response to new federal graduate student loan caps, lowering the total price for its Flex M.B.A. by $30,000 (about 23%) to $99,000 and...
DOJ expands enforcement of race-conscious admissions ban
The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine intentionally selected applicants based on race in violation of federal civil-rights law and the Supreme Court’s...
Campus antisemitism reporting shows a decline but policy tension remains
An ADL analysis reported that campus antisemitism declined in 2025, adding a data point to an environment that has remained politically and operationally contentious across higher education. The...
Community college-to-bachelor pathways show measurable outcomes for underserved students
A community-college model highlighted by Come to Believe Network members embeds community colleges within four-year universities to create a “seamless onramp” to bachelor’s completion for...
Accreditation governance adds AI and assessment expertise
CHEA established a Council of Experts on Quality Assurance and Accreditation to strengthen its engagement with scholars and practitioners on issues shaping academic quality. The council’s stated...
Federal grantmaking and research integrity under AI review scrutiny
As federal policy scrutiny grows, recent reporting shows how AI tools are increasingly being used in governance contexts—both for compliance and, in contested cases, for politically driven grant...
Campus learning management cyberattack and outage management
Instructure confirmed a cybersecurity incident affecting Canvas after ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and threatened to leak data, prompting disruptions for students and faculty during...
Graduate financial aid limits trigger tuition cuts
The University of California, Irvine moved quickly to offset newly constrained federal borrowing for many graduate students by reducing tuition for two business degree tracks. UC Irvine cut the...
AI analytics adoption for enrollment, aid, and student success
Liaison’s new report, AI in Action, described how higher education enrollment leaders are moving from experimentation to operational deployment of predictive and prescriptive analytics to improve...