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Universities hit with $100,000 H‑1B fee: hiring costs spike
Colleges and universities face sharply higher costs to hire foreign talent after the administration added a $100,000 fee for many H‑1B workers. The change raises recruiting and budget questions...
Explosion at Harvard Med School: officials call blast intentional
Harvard Medical School officials say an explosion on campus was intentional and reported seeing two people run from the building; the school has asked the public to help identify the individuals...
Emails show presidential role in firing – boards face academic-freedom test
Newly released internal emails show Mark A. Welsh III, then-president of Texas A&M, was closely involved in managing a viral controversy that led to a professor’s firing. The correspondence...
Hackers flood Penn accounts with profane spoofed messages – EDUCAUSE flags campus cyber risk
University of Pennsylvania officials reported a fraudulent email campaign that sent crude, profanity-laced messages from an account tied to the Graduate School of Education to students, alumni and...
Colleges test VR and hyflex—classroom design becomes strategic
Campus pilots and faculty research show immersive tech and hyflex classroom design are moving from experimentation to strategic investment. A Pepperdine study found students reported higher...
Universities place big bets on AI—campus rollouts meet new programs
San Jose State University is embedding generative AI across academics and operations through partnerships with OpenAI, IBM, Microsoft and NVIDIA, launching campus certificates and...
Indiana University reverses printing ban at student paper
Indiana University restored a student newspaper’s right to publish in print after widespread criticism prompted the university to reverse an earlier decision that had limited news coverage to...
Writing programs under siege—can they be rebuilt?
An essay examines the pressures facing university writing programs—political scrutiny, ideological attacks and disruption from AI—and argues the discipline is essential but must adapt. The piece...
Marcyliena Morgan, founder of Harvard Hip‑Hop Archive, dies at 75
Marcyliena Morgan, who founded and built Harvard University’s Hip‑Hop Archive and helped legitimize hip‑hop studies in academe, died at 75. Her work collecting recordings, scholarly essays and...
Judge orders Education Department to reinstate mental‑health grants: funding restored for now
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Education to temporarily reinstate canceled federal grants for school-based student mental health services, finding that the abrupt...
States sue to restore TRIO funding — 43,600 students left in limbo
Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., filed briefs urging a court to overturn the Education Department’s recent rejection of TRIO grant applications, saying the...
Education Dept. finalizes PSLF exclusions — employers could lose eligibility
The U.S. Department of Education finalized a rule narrowing which employers qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program, saying organizations deemed to have a “substantial...
New $100K visa fee lands on campuses: hiring foreign staff just got costlier
A new $100,000 fee imposed by the federal government for certain foreign hires will significantly raise the cost of bringing international talent to U.S. campuses, altering budget assumptions for...
New emails show president’s role in Texas A&M firing — governance under scrutiny
Internal emails obtained by The Chronicle reveal that Mark A. Welsh III, then‑president of Texas A&M, took a hands‑on role in managing a campus controversy that led to the firing of a professor...
Penn email spoof slams university — thousands targeted in crude cyber incident
A fraudulent email campaign sent from an account tied to the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education distributed profanity‑laced, ideologically charged messages to thousands of...
Live animals spilled on I‑59: monkey transport crash exposes research secrecy
A truck hauling 21 rhesus macaques overturned on a Mississippi interstate, killing five animals and leaving three at large, authorities said. Tulane University said the monkeys had been housed at...
‘AI everywhere’ at San Jose State — campus bets workforce ties will follow
San Jose State University president Cynthia Teniente‑Matson is pursuing an explicit strategy to integrate generative AI across academics and operations, partnering with OpenAI and industry...
EDUCAUSE: cybersecurity must be campuswide — culture not just tech
At EDUCAUSE, IT leaders named collaborative cybersecurity the top institutional issue for 2026, urging colleges to embed security responsibilities across faculty, staff and students. The 2026...
Valley Forge signs up for Trump’s compact — a skirmish over academic independence
Valley Forge Military College told the Education Department it wants to join the Trump administration’s expanded “Compact for Academic Excellence,” the private two‑year college said in a letter...
Shutdown drags on—universities curb spending, freeze grants
Colleges and research universities are tightening operations and conserving cash as the federal government shutdown moves into its fourth week. Institutions including Georgia Tech and Ohio...