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MBA numbers shift — Yale reports women surge; Stern posts GMAT high
Top business schools reported contrasting but notable enrollment shifts in their MBA classes. Yale School of Management’s Class of 2027 grew to 367 and hit a school record share of women at 44%,...
Colleges scramble to prove ROI: new analyses fuel recruitment strategy
Higher education leaders and state policymakers are placing return‑on‑investment metrics at the center of recruitment and funding decisions as students weigh college affordability and labor‑market...
Special‑needs students face fragile transitions: parents and students warn
Final‑year SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) students and parents of neurodivergent children are sounding alarms about post‑college transitions, pointing to insufficient local...
Ed Department data push — colleges warn timeline will cause errors
The Education Department’s proposal to force colleges to report expanded applicant and enrollment data has prompted a sector-wide pushback. More than three dozen higher‑education groups led by the...
Education Department layoffs rip through civil‑rights and postsecondary units
A wave of Department of Education staff cuts has hollowed out offices that oversee college access and civil‑rights enforcement. Reporting and union documents show the department moved to eliminate...
Accreditation leadership shifts — CHEA adds regional chief; NACIQI delayed
Governance and oversight in U.S. accreditation are in flux. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation elected Hether F. Perfetti, president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education...
Colleges press ROI case as public trust in higher ed plunges
Institutions are redoubling efforts to quantify graduates’ economic returns as public confidence in higher education declines. A Strada Education Foundation analysis found about 70% of recent...
Court blocks Texas speech curbs — campuses pull materials amid gender‑identity reviews
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping enforcement of a Texas law that banned most expressive activity on public campuses between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., finding plaintiffs raised...
Universities spurn White House compact — administration expands offer to all schools
Brown University followed MIT in rejecting the White House’s Compact for Academic Excellence, with Brown President Christina Paxson warning the compact’s provisions would undermine academic...
Professors clone themselves — AI instructors and classroom risks move from experiment to practice
Higher‑education experiments with AI instructors moved into the spotlight as Georgia Tech and edX pilots deployed avatar‑based, AI‑driven lecture delivery. Georgia Tech’s David Joyner and MIT’s...
Survey: nearly two‑thirds of San Diego community‑college students lack stable food or housing
A Real College Survey analysis of more than 77,000 community college students found acute basic‑needs insecurity: in the San Diego Community College District, 46% of respondents reported...
Harvard regains most federal research funding after court ruling
Harvard University reported it has received reinstatements for the majority of direct federal awards that the Trump administration had previously restricted. The university’s finance office...
Small data can poison LLMs — cheap, DIY chatbots signal a new research frontier
AI‑security researchers warned that inserting a few hundred malicious documents into training data can create backdoor vulnerabilities in large language models. An Anthropic study in collaboration...
Hispanic‑serving grants halted: CSU warns of budget shock
Federal moves to halt Hispanic‑serving institution (HSI) grant payments have prompted immediate pushback in Congress and alarm across California’s public system. Six Republican members of the...
Ed. Dept. layoffs expand: civil‑rights teams and programs hollowed out
The U.S. Department of Education moved this week to finalize hundreds of staff reductions that will further shrink the agency’s capacity to enforce civil‑rights laws and administer grants. More...
DeSantis accreditor on trial: can it pass national muster?
A new DeSantis‑backed accrediting body aimed at providing an alternative to regional accreditors is preparing to announce pilot universities even as national panels delay routine oversight...
Dartmouth president balks: won’t sign White House compact
Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock has told faculty she will not sign the Trump administration’s proposed higher‑education compact as written, according to reporting from Megan Zahneis....
Dartmouth builds chatbot: students to power mental‑health support
Dartmouth has launched an undergraduate‑assisted AI chatbot project designed to provide personalized support and wellness plans to students, the college announced. The initiative—built with...
GMU defends hiring amid federal probes: president says campus under a microscope
George Mason University President Gregory Washington told faculty the university remains in good standing as multiple federal inquiries examine diversity initiatives and alleged discrimination,...
Officials weigh selling student loans: a federal portfolio on the block
Senior Trump administration officials are reported to be considering selling select portions of the federal student‑loan portfolio to private investors, according to Politico. Discussions have...