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Faculty and academic leaders are moving to set classroom norms for AI while the sector braces for the next wave: agentic artificial intelligence. Surveys and campus initiatives show faculty—not...

Lead: The U.S. Department of Education reached consensus in negotiated rulemaking that will implement new federal borrowing limits for graduate and professional students, signaling a major...

Lead: President Donald Trump reinforced his administration’s mixed stance on foreign students, arguing on national television that limiting international enrollments would imperil U.S. colleges’...

Lead: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill publicly rejected the federal "Compact for Academic Excellence," saying it would not sign the agreement as written and would be unable to meet...

Lead: The Justice Department announced an investigation into confrontations at a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, after videos and campus reporting documented...

Lead: A former faculty representative at New College of Florida published a critical account of the campus’ conservative overhaul under new leadership, detailing clashes over governance,...

Lead: Texas state officials ordered a financial investigation of Texas Southern University after an audit found bookkeeping inconsistencies, expired-contract invoices and late financial statements...

Lead: UC San Diego’s Senate–Administration working group warned that a rising share of incoming first‑year students require remedial math, with 11.8% of the fall 2025 cohort placed into courses...

Lead: Labor tensions surfaced on multiple fronts as academic staff staged strikes in England and adjuncts and online faculty in the U.S. faced retroactive pay recovery notices. At Sheffield Hallam...

Lead: Preliminary national data show overall higher education enrollment up about 2% this fall, driven by a 2.4% undergraduate increase and a 4% jump at community colleges; undergraduate...

Lead: Colleges report that faculty, not administrators, are leading the development of classroom AI norms as campuses confront generative tools and the next wave of agentic systems. Faculty...

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into a confrontation at a Turning Point USA event on the University of California, Berkeley campus, citing security concerns after more than...

Federal negotiated rulemaking tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act reached consensus on new limits for graduate borrowing, effectively ending the Grad PLUS program and introducing tiered caps...

Tarrant County College’s online campus, TCC Connect, told 65 faculty members they must repay part of their summer pay after administrators said staff had been given incorrect information about...

Industrial action intensified at U.K. universities as staff at Sheffield Hallam University staged fresh strikes over job losses, workload and welfare while staff at Lancaster University began...

Preliminary National Student Clearinghouse data show undergraduate enrollment rose 2.4% this fall, driving a 2% overall increase in higher education enrollment and marking a third straight year of...

The U.S. Department of Education released priorities for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), targeting accreditation reform, artificial intelligence, civil discourse...

Colleges and research universities are assessing the operational impact of the Trump administration’s $100,000 H‑1B fee after initial guidance left uncertainty about who will pay and which...

Survey and reporting data show faculty are driving campus conversations about appropriate AI usage, setting classroom expectations and defining pedagogical boundaries rather than central...

Community college leaders requested that the Carnegie Classification withdraw its new Student Access and Earnings Classification after concerns that the methodology misrepresents two‑year...