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Education Dept opens 18 Title IX probes — Supreme Court weighs trans‑athlete bans
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights opened 18 Title IX investigations into K‑12 systems and colleges with policies allowing transgender students to compete on teams aligned...
Senate moves to protect research budgets — NSF, NIH funding restored above request
Senate appropriators advanced fiscal‑2026 spending bills that largely rejected the White House’s proposed cuts to scientific research, proposing roughly $188.3 billion for science — some $33...
Department of Education plan would apply earnings test broadly — accreditors face shake‑up
Negotiators on the Department of Education’s AHEAD Committee reached consensus on a regulatory package that would require an earnings‑based accountability test across all Title IV‑eligible...
Campus AI: usage outpaces strategy — Fuqua pilots classroom analytics
New data shows widespread AI use across university workforces but a worrying lack of institutional guidance: many faculty and staff are using generative tools without clear policies, leaving...
Deportations and visa revocations spook international enrollments
A federal court case and subsequent deportation drew attention after a Babson College freshman was removed from the U.S. despite a temporary judicial order; government lawyers apologized in court...
Accreditation, DEI and governance collide—Texas drops ABA requirement; Hopkins trims programs
Texas ended its longtime requirement that aspiring lawyers graduate from an American Bar Association‑accredited law school, a politically driven change tied to opposition to DEI standards and to...
Education Dept. earnings test: Title IV aid could vanish for low‑paying programs
Negotiators on the Department of Education’s AHEAD committee reached consensus on a regulatory package that would apply an earnings test to every Title IV‑eligible program. Under the proposal,...
Senate resists White House cuts — boosts science funding in spending bills
Senate appropriators advanced fiscal‑2026 spending packages that would largely reject the Trump administration’s proposed research cuts and allocate about $188.3 billion to scientific research —...
Texas drops ABA mandate — law‑school accreditation faces political shock
Texas ended its requirement that aspiring lawyers graduate from an American Bar Association‑accredited law school, a policy move tied to state political opposition to diversity, equity and...
California College of the Arts to close — Vanderbilt buying its San Francisco campus
California College of the Arts announced it will close by the end of the 2026–27 academic year after sustained enrollment declines and a budget gap the institution judged unsustainable. In a...
Morris Brown board ousts president — timing raises accreditation alarm
Morris Brown College’s Board of Trustees removed President Kevin James effective immediately, naming trustee Nzinga Shaw as interim leader. The board offered no public explanation; James said the...
Nebraska chancellor exit sparks scrutiny of governance and cuts
University of Nebraska–Lincoln chancellor Rodney Bennett departed six months before his contract ended and will receive a $1.1 million exit package, a move that ignited faculty outrage over recent...
Campus offices get a redesign — universities convert space for hybrid work
Colleges and universities are redesigning office footprints to match hybrid and flexible work patterns, creating shared desks, collaboration hubs and reconfigured meeting spaces. Institutions...
Duke’s Fuqua pilots classroom AI that logs participation — privacy and pedagogy meet
Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business deployed an AI‑enabled classroom system that records and attributes spoken comments to individual students to automate attendance, participation...
State Dept. revocations and SEVIS terminations squeeze international enrollments
The State Department reported about 8,000 student visas revoked since the start of the administration’s second term, part of a broader set of SEVIS status terminations and visa actions that...
Enrollment shortfalls force colleges and state boards to consider mergers and audits
Two separate developments underscore the enrollment and financial squeeze facing higher education: Hampshire College missed its freshman‑enrollment target by nearly half after a direct‑admit...
Education Dept. earnings test: All programs face Title IV peril
The U.S. Department of Education reached consensus on a regulatory package that would require every postsecondary program to pass an earnings test to keep access to Title IV student aid. The...
Senate rebukes White House: research budgets held steady
Senate appropriators advanced fiscal 2026 spending bills that largely rejected the Trump administration’s steep proposed cuts to federal research agencies, preserving billions for science at...
Supreme Court... states’ bans on trans girls near decisive moment
The U.S. Supreme Court heard back‑to‑back arguments in cases challenging Idaho and West Virginia laws that bar transgender girls from competing on women’s and girls’ sports teams. Conservative...
AI on campus: students bear costs of fragmented strategies
Colleges that buy generic institutional AI subscriptions without a coherent deployment plan are passing costs—and gaps in access—onto students, higher‑education analysts warned. Institutional AI...