Latest Higher Education News

The U.S. Department of Education proposed a new rule that would restrict federal student loan access—and in some cases Pell Grants—for college programs whose graduates’ earnings do not meet...

A Chinese court ruled that firms cannot terminate workers solely to replace them with artificial intelligence systems, rejecting AI-driven staffing reductions as an automatic legal basis for...

New reporting highlights a compounding affordability crisis for U.S. families: a housing shortage of roughly 4 million units alongside an estimated 4.2 million gap in childcare slots. The pairing...

Landlords who challenged the federal CDC eviction moratorium are in settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice, after winning an appeal over the policy’s constitutional footing....

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC-TV18 that some employers attribute layoffs to AI’s labor effects even when the job cuts would have occurred regardless, describing the practice as “AI washing.”...

A new account of Anthropic’s Claude “Mythos Preview” describes how agentic AI capability is colliding with cybersecurity and corporate governance risk. The coverage says Anthropic identified...

Cornell University President Michael Kotlikoff said he was the victim of harassment and intimidation after an incident in which he struck two people with his car following an Israel-Palestine...

Bard College president Leon Botstein announced he will retire at the end of June after an independent review found he “minimized” his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein....

An exam-season survival guide focused on learners’ study methods, organization, and stress management emphasizes practical revision systems such as traffic-light self-assessment, peer explanation...

A new analysis argues that AI models are increasingly “choking on junk data,” warning that the next phase of AI—physical AI and world models—requires high-quality, richly structured data rather...

The U.S. Department of Education proposed a rule that would cut off federal student loan access for higher-earning undergraduates and graduates from programs that fail new earnings benchmarks tied...

The Department of Education finalized a regulation affecting federal graduate student loans, narrowing the definition of which fields qualify as “professional” graduate degrees eligible for higher...

A Chinese court ruled that companies can’t end employment solely because AI systems automate a worker’s role, citing illegal termination grounds in a case involving demotion and a pay cut after an...

At Cornell University, a dispute over an Israel-Palestine debate escalated into allegations that the university president, Michael Kotlikoff, struck protesters with his car. Cornell University has...

A first-year student at the University of Notre Dame, Caden Chuang, triggered an immediate academic integrity response after announcing an AI agent called “Kerra” that could connect to Canvas and...

DePauw University has drawn attention for spending far more than peer institutions on student support services, with the central question shifting to whether the increased investment improves...

Multiple colleges are reshaping commencement plans after fears of violence or political disturbance, including changes ranging from disinviting speakers to replacing speeches with pre-recorded...

Anthropic’s Mythos Preview model triggered renewed focus on AI governance and corporate cybersecurity controls after the company identified longstanding software flaws during testing. The report...

The Federal Communications Commission approved a new competitive bidding portal for E-rate, the federal program funding school internet connectivity, replacing self-certification procedures with...

R1 research universities are adapting their IT infrastructure as AI-driven experiments create unpredictable spikes in compute and network demand, according to a report focused on campus and...