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At the University of California San Diego’s Rady School of Management, MBA students are taking on real consulting work through the Rady Action Project (RAP), blending experiential learning with...

Anna Maria College in Massachusetts announced plans to close at the end of spring term, citing years of financial pressure that the institution could not overcome. The governing board and...

The U.S. Department of Education acknowledged it shifted or left unspent roughly $1 billion Congress appropriated for specific programs during the first months of President Donald Trump’s second...

A new Ithaka S+R survey of 4,000 faculty members finds nearly one-third of researchers say they have altered or censored their research due to state laws restricting the teaching and study of...

A new argument in the faculty assessment debate says student teaching evaluations are structurally misaligned with teaching effectiveness, pushing institutions toward lower rigor and weakening...

Colleges are confronting a new discoverability challenge as AI tools increasingly generate direct answers to prospective students. The issue is not visibility in search results alone but whether...

Anna Maria College’s closure plan illustrates how quickly student protections can become urgent when an institution loses financial viability. The Massachusetts board decision triggered workforce...

Texas A&M University’s 12-campus system moved from isolated pilots to a cross-unit, system-wide AI student engagement platform aimed at keeping Pell Grant-eligible students on track. The chatbot,...

Colleges are racing to remain discoverable in AI-assisted college search as zero-click results increase the risk that institutions never show up in chatbot overviews. Reporting highlighted early...

A new survey of 4,000 faculty reported widespread self-censorship tied to state laws restricting “divisive concepts,” including changes to how race and gender topics can be taught or studied....

Faculty at USC Marshall delivered a letter to Dean Geoffrey Garrett accusing leadership of driving a “downward trajectory” in academic reputation, research commitment, and student quality. The...

New research in JAMA found that the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was associated with an 11% reduction in suicide deaths among U.S. young adults and teens compared with what researchers expected...

Anna Maria College’s governing board voted to close the Massachusetts institution at the end of spring term, citing years of financial pressure it said it could not overcome. President Sean Ryan...

The U.S. Department of Education acknowledged it shifted or left unused about $1 billion Congress appropriated for specific education programs during the early months of President Donald Trump’s...

A new critique argues that student teaching evaluations are structurally unreliable and can erode academic integrity by rewarding leniency over rigor. The piece points to research showing little...

Higher education marketers highlighted how colleges can protect their presence in AI-mediated discovery by adjusting content for AI citations and “answer engine” summaries. The reporting...

The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is drawing new members while intensifying its fight against actions aligned with the Trump administration, according to reporting on the...

A shooter fired at a Washington, D.C. hotel hosting the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner, triggering an immediate evacuation of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance,...

A new Ithaka S+R survey of 4,000 faculty members says nearly a third of researchers in red states have altered or withheld research due to state laws restricting teaching and studying “divisive...

A coalition of education organizations, the Knowledge Alliance, warned the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is on track to lose about $289 million in education research funding if money is...