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Federal higher‑education policymakers signaled an intensified demand for institutional change at recent sector meetings. Officials characterized the current system as failing on measurable student...

The Department of Education confirmed ongoing discussions with outside stakeholders about the possible sale or privatization of more than $1 trillion in federal student loans. Undersecretary...

A suite of sector reports and commentary flagged 2023–2026 as a pivotal period for U.S. higher education: demographic headwinds, visa and federal policy changes, and shifting international...

Universities and corporate partners are investing in large‑scale infrastructure to secure power reliability and to lure students back to campuses. Google announced plans for a Minneapolis...

Students are converting unconventional campus activities into measurable career advantages. Excel esports teams at dozens of universities—culminating in Microsoft‑sponsored competitions—are...

A federal judge found the IRS unlawfully disclosed taxpayer address information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement roughly 42,695 times, ruling the agency violated strict confidentiality...

The Education Department moved Friday to rewrite the rules governing college accreditors, tightening oversight and shortening the review timeline for new agencies. Under Secretary Nicholas Kent...

A public rupture between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated this week when the White House ordered federal agencies to cease using Anthropic’s models and the Defense Department threatened to...

At the American Council on Education annual meeting, Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent delivered a forceful address demanding sweeping changes across higher education. Kent accused...

Federal immigration agents detained a Columbia University student early Thursday after entering a campus residence using what the university says were the pretext of searching for a missing child....

Twenty‑three retired Harvard Business School professors published a joint letter warning against efforts they say could subvert American democracy by undermining free and fair elections. The...

Internal documents at Texas A&M reveal administrators scrambling to censor or restrict curriculum amid new state directives, producing widespread uncertainty among faculty about what can be...

The Financial Times’ 2026 MBA ranking topped out with MIT’s Sloan taking first place for the first time, a notable shift for business‑school positioning and recruitment. The Poets&Quants wrap...

EDUCAUSE’s Top 10 for 2026 centers on reconciling collective will with individual capabilities as higher‑ed IT leaders push to make better institutional connections. The report stresses human...

Three years after the public release of mainstream LLMs, teachers report both productive AI uses and significant barriers to classroom adoption. Education Week’s webinar and survey show a shortage...

A coalition led by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Preparation proposed a $2.5 billion federal plan to rebuild teacher‑preparation pipelines, including scholarships and...

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei said the company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defense Department’s demand that it remove contractual limits on how the military can use its Claude models....

OpenAI reached a preliminary agreement with the Pentagon to provide its models for classified systems while the government issued an unprecedented designation that labeled Anthropic a...

The U.S. Department of Education outlined accelerated rules to recognize new accreditors and signaled broader plans to overhaul the accreditation system, saying it will hold institutions to...

The Department of Education confirmed it is still exploring proposals to privatize portions of the federal student‑loan portfolio, acknowledging meetings with stakeholders about selling more than...