Latest Higher Education News

The U.S. Education Department has begun sending notices that administrative wage garnishment will resume for federal student-loan borrowers in default, putting roughly 5.3 million people at risk...

Higher-ed personnel moves this week highlighted competing pressures on staffing and institutional viability. Austin Peay State University reinstated a tenured theatre professor and agreed to a...

A policy paper from Hepi and Taylor & Francis argues that artificial intelligence can accelerate translational research — speeding discovery-to-application workflows, improving search and...

Texas A&M ordered faculty to remove an excerpt of Plato’s Symposium from a philosophy syllabus as part of a broader review of courses that touch on race and gender. The directive, reported by...

A federal appeals court upheld a lower-court injunction blocking the National Institutes of Health from imposing a 15% cap on indirect-cost reimbursement, preserving negotiated overhead rates for...

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is facing a governance crisis after Chancellor Rodney Bennett announced his resignation and a separation agreement revealed a $1.1 million payout to the...

Martin University announced an institutional closure after trustees concluded declining enrollment, mounting debt and limited operating cash made continued operations unsustainable. The...

A cross-party review of university funding announced by the Scottish government has been criticised by academics and think‑tank authors as deferring urgent decisions on the sector’s financial...

The University of Liverpool appointed Professor Richard Grose as provost of its new Bengaluru campus as the Russell Group institution prepares to admit its first cohort in August. Grose, formerly...

A new Hepi–Taylor & Francis paper argues that artificial intelligence can accelerate translational research—helping convert laboratory discoveries into real‑world applications—while cautioning...

Institutions are responding to the visa delays, OPT uncertainty and SEVIS disruptions that disrupted international student flows in 2025 by redesigning admissions, support and recruitment...

The U.S. Department of Education has resumed administrative wage garnishments for federal student loan borrowers in default, restarting a collections tool that could affect millions. Officials and...

Trinity Hall, a Cambridge college, approved a policy to proactively recruit applicants from a short list of elite private schools—a move that college fellows say aims to raise applicants’...

A federal appeals court affirmed a lower-court injunction blocking the National Institutes of Health from imposing a 15% cap on indirect cost reimbursement for research grants. The 1st U.S....

Appropriators in both chambers proposed budgets that largely reject President Trump’s deep cuts to major federal science agencies. Lawmakers plan far smaller reductions for the National Science...

The U.S. Department of Education has restarted administrative wage garnishment for federal student loans in default, sending notices to borrowers and warning employers to expect orders. Federal...

Martin University, the only predominantly Black private university in Indiana, announced it will close after a brief operational pause. Trustees said declining enrollment, rising costs,...

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression recorded a record 273 attempts to investigate, censor or discipline student expression in 2025, the highest number since the watchdog began...

A wave of presidential appointments and interim placements hit higher education this winter, with institutions from public regional universities to elite private colleges announcing leadership...

Visa appointment backlogs, heightened SEVIS scrutiny, and threats to Optional Practical Training disrupted international enrollment and employment pathways throughout 2025. Colleges reported...