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AI adoption is accelerating, but workforce reactions are splitting: some employees report productivity gains while others say concerns about job replacement, ethics, and data privacy are driving...

New federal Title IV graduate and professional borrowing caps are scheduled to begin this summer, reshaping how graduate students finance degrees and how institutions package aid. New graduate...

Syracuse University began workforce downsizing planning with voluntary early retirement offers to about 175 faculty members, Provost Lois Agnew notified faculty. The buyouts are open through...

Hampshire College will close after the fall semester, bringing an end to its 56-year operation after leaders said it no longer has sufficient resources to meet regulatory responsibilities and...

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed suit to stop Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion from selling its Cincinnati campus, accusing the institution of breaching legal promises tied...

Harvard University moved to contest a new Trump administration antisemitism lawsuit, arguing the case is effectively a “do-over” of litigation Harvard already won. In a memorandum filed Monday,...

Florida International University is confronting a campus climate backlash after leaked messages surfaced containing violent, racist language. A report describes a professor emeritus leading a...

The Texas Tech University System plans to eliminate academic programs focused on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a memo from Chancellor Brandon Creighton. The policy requires...

A federal judge extended deadlines for private nonprofit colleges and certain higher education associations to submit race-and-sex admissions data to the U.S. Department of Education, granting...

Faculty and staff unions representing workers at 125 campuses across the Northeast signed onto the “Amherst Compact,” a coordinated bargaining and collaboration effort aimed at shared contract...

Anthropic’s Mythos announcement has triggered a new wave of concern among cybersecurity leaders and policymakers about a widening gap between AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and slower...

Hampshire College said it will close after the fall semester, ending a 56-year experiment as persistent enrollment declines, deficits, and accreditation pressure overwhelmed a long-running...

The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) issued a statement warning that proposed federal changes to accreditation could expand expectations into areas beyond peer review and...

At Florida International University, a leaked WhatsApp group chat surfaced violent racist and antisemitic content while the state environment limits what administrators can address in DEI-related...

The U.S. Department of Education notified Congress that it plans to dissolve the Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA), which oversees federal programs for more than 5 million English...

Florida’s anti-DEI environment and FIU’s internal response are only part of a broader campus climate challenge: violent, hateful online language is increasingly intersecting with what students...

A federal judge extended deadlines for colleges and higher-ed associations to submit race- and sex-disaggregated admissions data to the U.S. Department of Education. The ruling gives institutional...

A new webinar highlighted how upcoming Title IV borrowing limits will reshape graduate and professional student financing this summer. Under the new rules, new graduate borrowers will be capped at...

Two high-profile leadership exits at large public research universities have reignited debate over how politicized governance is becoming for college presidents. Virginia Tech President Timothy D....

Targeted supports are helping more former college stopouts reenroll, according to reported enrollment data. The article described Jevona Anderson as an example of a student who left near...