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Blackboard executives warned that reliably detecting agentic AI in learning management systems is currently unrealistic, prompting a pivot toward redesigning assessment and pedagogy to manage...

Private institutions are increasingly enforcing restrictive speech and student‑organization policies, citing reputational and donor pressures, legal officers and students report. A recent case at...

Late and unreliable payroll has become a chronic problem for contingent faculty and graduate employees, with reports of repeated missed paydays at large systems such as the City University of New...

State lawmakers moved quickly to authorize conditional emergency aid for Southern Oregon University even as Portland State University outlines proactive program cuts under its PIVOT academic...

Iowa’s legislature is moving on multiple fronts to reshape higher education: a House measure that would penalize private colleges with DEI offices by cutting student grant eligibility passed the...

Oregon State University’s board approved tuition increases of about 5–6 percent—6.3% for new undergraduates and smaller raises for returning and graduate students—to address a projected $14...

A wave of state policies requiring public colleges to post syllabi has collided with a broader pattern of curricular self‑censorship among faculty. At least seven states now mandate publicly...

Australia’s Strategic Examination of Research and Development (Serd) panel released a sweeping set of recommendations to reverse a decade of declines in basic research funding. The report calls...

Adjunct instructors at public universities reported repeated paycheck delays this semester, underscoring payroll weaknesses that affect untenured faculty and graduate employees. The Chronicle’s...

Former NIH officials and researchers warned that the agency has dramatically reduced proactive funding signals to the research community, publishing just 14 Notices of Funding Opportunities...

A federal judge pushed back the Education Department’s deadline for colleges to submit new race- and sex‑disaggregated applicant and admit data by one week amid a 17‑state legal challenge. The...

At least seven states and multiple university systems have adopted laws or policies requiring public colleges to post course syllabi, prompting debate over transparency and academic freedom....

Higher education leaders and policy analysts are pressing for urgent action after projections showed a looming Pell shortfall and concerns that Workforce Pell initiatives may bypass rural...

Campus learning‑management vendors and administrators are confronting a two‑front challenge: technical limits to reliably detecting agentic AI use and uneven institutional readiness to integrate...

The University of Kent moved some exams online and postponed others after an invasive meningitis outbreak linked to a Canterbury nightclub left two young people dead and several students...

Ohio State University’s president resigned after an internal finding of an inappropriate relationship involving public resources; trustees moved quickly to appoint Provost Ravi Bellamkonda as...

A Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond analysis found that measuring community‑college success more broadly boosts four‑year outcomes: a 49.8% success rate under an expanded definition versus the...

The Higher Learning Commission announced the first formal endorsements for third‑party microcredential providers, approving four organizations that offer short-term certificates, badges and...

A federal judge moved the Education Department’s deadline for colleges to submit new race- and sex‑disaggregated admissions and applicant data, buying time for litigation and scrutiny. U.S....

A wave of state actions is reshaping classroom transparency and curricular control. At least seven states now require public college syllabi to be posted online, prompting debate over academic...