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Research rankings and new academic work on existential AI risk are changing how universities frame influence and investment. Poets & Quants highlighted the Financial Times research ranking that...

Two developments touch university law, history and governance. Ely Samuel Parker, a Seneca leader who drafted the Civil War surrender terms at Appomattox, was posthumously admitted to the New York...

A federal judge this week halted the administration’s effort to summarily cancel and withhold research funding from the University of California, issuing an injunction that stops agencies from...

Former University of Virginia president James E. Ryan says he was forced from office after an intense pressure campaign that included federal investigators, state political actors and dissident...

Reporting and sources reveal leadership changes at the National Endowment for the Humanities accompanied by personnel removals and a reworking of grant priorities that critics say favors...

Sterling College in Vermont announced it will cease degree programs after the spring 2026 semester, citing steep enrollment declines and persistent financial shortfalls. The environmental-studies...

The administration’s budget proposal would cut federal work-study funding, a program that subsidizes part-time campus employment for roughly 700,000 students annually. College leaders and...

Yale University’s new volume, authored by Pulitzer-winning historian David Blight and tied to the Yale and Slavery research project, documents the university’s deep historical entanglements with...

An academic anatomical-sciences award at Stony Brook University is under renewed scrutiny after reporting tied the prize’s namesake to Nazi-era scientific networks. Historians and faculty...

The NCAA and campus athletic programs report a surge in abusive and threatening social-media messages directed at student-athletes, particularly in men’s college basketball around postseason play....

Schools are reporting an uptick in long, legally styled complaints that administrators suspect were drafted with generative AI, forcing principals and district leaders to spend hours or hire...

Duncan Ivison, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, warned that a proposed 6% levy on international tuition would harm the UK higher-education sector and undermine...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s broad effort to cut or withhold federal research grants from the University of California system without standard notice-and-hearing...

Former University of Virginia president James E. Ryan published a detailed 12-page account saying he was forced from his post after a short ultimatum tied to federal civil-rights investigations...

An internal overhaul at the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Trump administration has prompted criticism that institutional procedures were weakened and that grant-making skewed...

Sterling College, a niche environmental-studies institution in Vermont, announced it will close after the spring 2026 semester, citing persistent enrollment declines and financial pressure. The...

Coursera will begin charging a 15% platform fee to colleges and employers using its learning platform starting in 2026, a move that signals a rebalancing of the online-programs market. The shift...

The Trump administration has proposed cuts to the federal work-study program, a move that would reduce subsidies helping roughly 700,000 students offset college costs through part-time campus and...

The University of Manchester’s president and vice-chancellor warned that a proposed 6% surcharge on fees paid by international students would damage the UK higher-education sector. Duncan Ivison...

Staff members who kept their jobs after campus furloughs and cuts report anxiety, exhaustion and operational strain as remaining workloads balloon. At UC San Diego and other research universities,...