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Kentucky Republicans overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto to advance House Bill 490, allowing public college and university boards to lay off even tenured faculty for “bona fide financial reasons,”...

The Trump administration’s accreditation overhaul is turning toward specialized program accreditors, with Education Department officials arguing that some standards set by professional and trade...

Tennessee’s HB 1476, dubbed the “Charlie Kirk Act,” heads to Gov. Bill Lee after legislators approved a statewide limit on “staging walkouts” at public university events. The bill would require...

Tennessee educators are pushing back against proposed state legislation that would require schools to collect students’ immigration status, arguing it could undermine trust with immigrant families...

Parents facing a difficult labor market are increasingly paying for career coaching far earlier than traditional college-to-career pipelines, with some spending up to $15,000 before their children...

Clarke University in Iowa is poised to wipe out its long-term debt after receiving a $5 million gift from alumna Honmai Goodman and her husband, Joseph. The donation matches the university’s...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order aimed at stopping further erosion of instructional time as districts face budget pressures and achievement gaps. The order directs the Oregon...

A new analysis from the Collaborative for Student Success argues that many high school graduates enter college without the math proficiency needed for post-secondary success, even as graduation...

Kansas legislators have advanced a ban targeting “DEI-CRT” courses, moving diversity and inclusion-related course content into the center of statewide higher education and curriculum compliance...

A higher education cybersecurity guidance piece advances continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) as a structured way for campus security teams to focus on the vulnerabilities that pose the...

The U.S. Department of Education has proposed a new “earnings test” that would strip federal loan eligibility from undergraduate programs whose graduates’ higher earnings do not beat a benchmark...

The Trump administration’s accreditation overhaul is targeting specialized, program-level accreditors—especially those tied to engineering, nursing, and health-related pathways—during negotiated...

Kentucky Republicans moved forward with legislation that allows public college and university boards to lay off even tenured faculty for “bona fide financial reasons,” including cases such as low...

Tennessee has sent a bill to Gov. Bill Lee that would require public colleges to adopt restrictions aligned with the University of Chicago’s “Chicago Principles” on free expression, including a...

Illinois lawmakers are debating two competing approaches to AI catastrophe liability, with OpenAI and Anthropic backing different bills as their long-running safety-and-regulation standoff...

A cybersecurity guidance article is urging colleges and universities to adopt continuous threat exposure management (CTEM), arguing that traditional higher ed security strategies have not always...

New National Student Clearinghouse Research Center data shows more students are choosing associate degrees as their next step, with 18-to-20-year-olds becoming the largest share of first-time...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek issued an executive order aimed at preventing additional erosion of classroom instructional time as districts respond to budget pressures and post-pandemic learning...

A new analysis argues that U.S. high school graduation rates are recovering while college-preparatory math proficiency remains far behind, leaving students to enter postsecondary pathways with...