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Faculty labor and governance flashpoints – HACC strike yields tentative deal; shared governance debated
Faculty at Harrisburg Area Community College reached a tentative contract after a two‑day strike and protracted negotiations focused on pay, curriculum control and class sizes. The agreement...
Student persistence under the microscope – stopouts, belonging programs expose solutions
A Community College Research Center study surveyed students who stopped out and found financial hardship, academic struggles and psychological stress as leading reasons for attrition, with most...
NIH grant cuts upend trials — 383 studies hit
Federal grant disruptions have removed funding from hundreds of active clinical studies, imperiling patient safety, data integrity and ongoing research timelines. A JAMA Internal Medicine analysis...
Judge blocks federal funding clampdown on UC — legal rebuke to enforcement playbook
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction preventing the administration from withholding University of California research funds while a lawsuit alleging politically motivated enforcement...
International student enrollment slips: Open Doors flags 17% fall in new arrivals
New fall 2025 snapshot data from Open Doors shows a sharp 17% drop in first‑time international student enrollment at U.S. institutions, signaling early disruption to a revenue stream many colleges...
Admissions reset: colleges ease gatekeeping as applicant pool shrinks
Colleges nationwide are simplifying application processes, waiving fees and making post‑deadline offers as the pool of traditional 18‑year‑old applicants begins a projected long decline....
Student finance in flux: U.S. loan changes and England’s White Paper press institutions
Federal changes to student loans and a sweeping English White Paper on post‑16 education are reshaping institutional planning around tuition, aid and accountability. The U.S. Education Department...
Campus turmoil: professor reassigned, Oxford Saïd dean resigns after probes
Universities are confronting parallel crises over faculty speech and misconduct. At the University of Kentucky a law professor who advocated for military action against Israel was reassigned...
Boards tested: governance decisions drive outcomes and court fights
New research and court rulings are putting governing boards at the center of higher‑education outcomes and political conflict. The Association of Governing Boards released a study showing...
Strikes and cuts: faculty union tentatively resolves contract as colleges trim programs
Faculty labor and institutional budgets remain flashpoints: after a brief strike and intensive negotiations, the union at Harrisburg Area Community College reached a tentative contract covering...
AI in classrooms: co‑created integrity rules and adaptive instruction emerge
Colleges and educators are shifting from bans to frameworks for generative AI, co‑creating agile academic integrity policies that center equity and faculty leadership. A higher‑education...
MacKenzie Scott pours hundreds of millions into HBCUs — record gifts reshape campuses
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott announced a new wave of transformative donations aggregating in the hundreds of millions to historically Black colleges and universities. Several HBCUs reported...
Court halts federal freeze on UC research grants
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from freezing University of California research funding, saying the government cannot use civil-rights probes to...
Texas AG sues higher-ed board: work-study faith rules challenged
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board seeking to end three state work-study programs, alleging their nonsectarian employment and seminary-exclusion...
New international enrollments plunge: Open Doors finds 17% drop
Early fall data released in the Open Doors snapshot and Education Week reporting show sharp declines in new international student enrollment this fall, with the Open Doors survey indicating a 17%...
MacKenzie Scott pours hundreds of millions into HBCUs
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott delivered another wave of multi‑million-dollar, largely unrestricted gifts to historically Black colleges and universities, with announcements this month...
Harassment finding forces Saïd dean to resign
Oxford Saïd Business School dean Soumitra Dutta resigned after an external university investigation substantiated multiple harassment complaints by a female colleague. University documents show...
Colleges ease admissions: one-click apps, fee waivers rise
As the 18‑year‑old population recedes, colleges across the U.S. are simplifying admissions to attract a smaller applicant pool — waiving fees, offering one‑click applications and proactively...
Universities co‑create AI integrity rules... with equity in mind
Faculty and campus leaders are piloting co‑creation processes to develop agile academic‑integrity guidelines for generative AI, emphasizing equity and frequent updates as the technology evolves....
Harvard discloses large Bitcoin ETF holding — endowment allocation shifts
Harvard University disclosed a nearly $442 million position in BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), filings show, making the spot crypto ETF one of the endowment’s largest single holdings by...