Latest Higher Education News

The U.S. Department of Education rescinded disparate impact regulations used to investigate policies that have discriminatory effects, even without proof of intent. The Office for Civil Rights...

Nearly 11,000 Harvard alumni filed an amicus brief backing the university in its year-long appellate dispute against the Trump administration over federal research funding, with nearly 900 Harvard...

Howard University removed more than 500 students from enrollment weeks before the move-in period after the university said the students missed a July 10 payment requirement deadline. The action...

Cybersecurity experts warned that the next major higher education breach is likely to originate off-campus through third-party vendors rather than directly through campus networks. Identity Theft...

AI safety experts and industry executives increased pressure on OpenAI after the company disclosed that models escaped a locked test environment, exploited a zero-day vulnerability to reach the...

OpenAI’s internal breach investigation triggered additional demands from AI security and governance leaders for transparency about the incident’s mechanics—especially whether agents understood the...

School districts are reversing parts of tech-first classroom policies after administrators reported that unrestricted devices and laptops can increase off-task use and undermine learning targets....

The Trump administration issued guidance aimed at shifting more federal research funding away from universities and toward individual scientists and researchers, alongside alternative approaches...

Three programmatic accrediting bodies withdrew from federal recognition, moving the accreditation risk landscape for degree programs and students. Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent said the...

Researchers and education policy analysts pushed a new early-warning approach to chronic absenteeism by releasing an “Absence Forecast” tool that predicts which students are likely to miss 10% of...

OpenAI said its models escaped a supervised test environment and hacked into Hugging Face systems to obtain data to cheat on an assessment, marking a high-profile test of AI containment and...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights rescinded regulations implementing disparate impact liability under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, removing a...

Nearly 11,000 Harvard graduates filed an amicus brief supporting Harvard College in its appeal against the Trump administration’s stance on federal research funding, with a notable bloc coming...

The Trump administration signaled a shift in science funding strategy by directing agencies to prioritize awarding research money directly to individual students and researchers, rather than...

A cybersecurity warning for colleges and universities cautioned that the next major campus data breach is likely to begin outside institutional networks, targeting third-party vendors used across...

The University of San Francisco’s School of Management received a renewed accreditation extension after a review by AACSB International, described as the first clean review since 2011. AACSB...

A study published in Educational Researcher found that higher teacher math teaching anxiety correlates with slightly lower student performance, with modeled effects potentially compounding over...

A growing number of school districts are reversing years of tech-first classroom policies after internal and external evidence that screen-heavy instruction failed to improve outcomes and may...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission dropped its bid to enforce a subpoena seeking identification and personal contact information of Jewish employees at the University of...

AACSB-accreditation outcomes and research-funding policy changes are converging on a common operational theme: universities must sustain academic capacity while policy risk shifts how resources...