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Safe‑parking program keeps unhoused students enrolled — cars as temporary dorms
Long Beach City College’s Safe Parking Program has provided a parking lot, showers and basic supports for students sleeping in cars, offering a stopgap for students facing homelessness while they...
Dual enrollment buoyed pandemic cohort completion — study finds
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center shows dual enrollment helped sustain six‑year completion rates for students who began college in fall 2019, a cohort affected by...
Research under pressure — AI‑tainted reviews and China’s research rise
Two developments this week put fresh scrutiny on research quality and the global scholarly landscape. An analysis of reviews submitted to the International Conference on Learning Representations...
What elite colleges owe students — and why business schools must help reset higher education
A debate over elite universities’ obligations to students and society is gaining momentum as scholars and advocates press for clearer measures of institutional impact. Evan Mandery and others...
Universities retool career services — influencer certificates and new IDPs emerge
Colleges are creating new career pathways and tools to match student ambitions beyond traditional professional tracks. Syracuse University opened a Center for the Creator Economy offering...
Court preserves some school mental‑health grants — funding remains unsettled
A federal appeals court temporarily preserved funding for 49 school‑mental‑health projects after the Education Department had notified awardees earlier this year that the Trump administration...
FAFSA update: Education Dept flags low‑earning colleges
The Education Department added a “lower earnings” disclosure to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), showing first‑year undergraduates a warning when selected colleges have median...
Model legislation targets non‑STEM research — Goldwater leads push
Three right‑leaning organizations released model state legislation aimed at curbing what they call “intellectually unserious” research outside STEM, proposing new teaching and hiring rules for...
Regents slash programs: Nebraska approves 4 cuts, Oklahoma ends 41
Two state governing boards moved to eliminate multiple academic programs after productivity reviews and budget scrutiny. The University of Nebraska System’s regents approved cutting four programs...
Rider U. slashes faculty and pay after accreditor probation
Rider University’s new president rolled out sweeping cuts after the Middle States Commission on Higher Education placed the institution on probation for insufficient financial evidence. John R....
Education Dept orders civil‑rights staff back to clear complaint backlog
The U.S. Department of Education told previously sidelined Office for Civil Rights employees to return to duty to address a growing backlog of discrimination complaints. The department said staff...
Appeals court shields 49 school mental‑health grants — uncertainty remains
A federal appeals court granted temporary protection for funding tied to 49 school‑mental‑health projects, preserving payments to programs that were targeted for termination earlier this year by...
Dual enrollment tied to stronger completion — research center finds gains
New National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data show dual enrollment participation correlated with higher completion rates: more than 71% of dual enrollees in the fall‑2019 cohort earned a...
Research funding and geopolitics pressure campuses — China catches up on impact
Colleges are confronting a mix of budgetary shocks and shifting federal research policy as a new report finds Chinese research impact nearing U.S. levels. Sector highlights include the University...
Classroom content and campus media become flashpoints — professors pressured
Recent moves to limit how gender and race are taught in some states and campuses have led to faculty discipline, classroom disputes, and suspended student outlets. Universities are seeing guidance...
Vaccine rules shift: Supreme Court reopens New York exemption ban; advisers narrow newborn Hep B guidance
Two separate legal and advisory developments reshaped school‑health policy. The U.S. Supreme Court directed the 2nd Circuit to reconsider challenges to New York’s 2019 law that eliminated...
Education Dept. races to launch — and end — Workforce Pell this week
The Department of Education told stakeholders it plans to begin and then terminate a pilot program expanding Pell grants to workforce training within the same week. The agency’s timeline, reported...
Ed. Dept. reassigns laid‑off civil‑rights staff to tackle growing backlog
The Education Department ordered dozens of civil‑rights investigators who had been put on administrative leave back to work to help clear a mounting backlog of discrimination complaints....
9th Circuit preserves dozens of school mental‑health grants — funding now in limbo
A federal appeals panel temporarily preserved funding for 49 school mental‑health projects after the Education Department tried to terminate grants it said reflected prior administration...
Report: Chinese research impact ‘on par’ with U.S. — research security faces pressure
A new analysis finds China’s research output and influence approaching parity with U.S. science, a finding that collides with increased U.S. scrutiny of research security and foreign...