Latest Higher Education News

Texas A&M University’s 12-campus system has launched an AI-driven student engagement platform, with a chatbot built in collaboration with Mainstay to provide personalized guidance for Pell...

Reporting on Anthropic’s Mythos model indicates it was accessed by an unauthorized group quickly after release, through a private Discord setting and third-party vendor involvement. The incident...

At Cornell University, biomedical engineering instructor Chris Schaffer is using oral “defense” exams to make it harder for students to outsource learning to generative AI, requiring direct...

The Iowa Board of Regents approved elimination of ten programs through closures or mergers at two state universities following a prior mandate to review low-enrollment degrees. The University of...

Anna Maria College announced it will close at the end of the spring semester after years of financial pressure, citing unresolved resource and debt concerns. The closure follows warnings from...

State-funded preschool enrollment reached record highs, with nearly 1.8 million children in public preschool nationally—an increase of 44,000 from the prior year—according to a report from...

Financial aid professionals are warning that federal student loan changes embedded in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” may need institutional systems work to begin without final regulatory rules ahead...

The Education Department’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) is on track to lose roughly $289 million in education research funding that must be spent by Sept. 30 or returned to the Treasury,...

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear stepped up public pressure on University of Kentucky leadership, citing specific hiring decisions and oversight concerns tied to athletics and the law school. Beshear...

The U.S. Department of Education opened a civil rights investigation into how a New York City group teaches, focusing on a pro-Palestinian organization called N.Y.C. Educators for Palestine. The...

Iowa’s Board of Regents approved closures or mergers of low-enrollment programs at the University of Iowa and the University of Northern Iowa, acting on a low-enrollment threshold tied to...

Anna Maria College announced it will close at the end of the spring semester and shut down by the end of 2026, citing insurmountable financial challenges. The Massachusetts Catholic institution...

Educators are adjusting assessment practices as generative AI makes some take-home work easier to reproduce, with growing interest in oral exams and in-person defenses. At Cornell, a biomedical...

College financial aid offices are warning that major student-loan changes in the “One Big Beautiful Bill” may be implemented without finalized rules or stable operational guidance ahead of a July...

Latino advocates and students are mounting a lobbying campaign to block a proposed $354 million reduction to the federal grant program supporting minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The proposal...

Missouri State University faced a lawsuit from a right-wing advocacy organization alleging the university’s bias incident response policy chills student speech and violates First Amendment and due...

Student support demand continues to strain campus systems as mental health needs rise and institutional capacity lags. A new student-success perspective highlights mounting demand for support...

Anna Maria College will close at the end of the spring semester, after officials cited insurmountable financial challenges and repeated compliance warnings. The Catholic institution in rural...

The Iowa Board of Regents approved elimination of ten low-enrollment programs across two public universities, acting on its workforce-and-enrollment review framework. The University of Iowa will...

Labor action is set to intensify across several U.K. universities as unions escalate disputes over budget cuts and pension changes. The University of Edinburgh will face a marking boycott...