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Moody’s Ratings downgraded Brown University’s credit outlook to negative, pointing to “already thin operating performance” that could persist for several years. The agency highlighted Brown’s high...

Two major leadership moves hit U.S. institutions as boards reshaped senior management. Notre Dame of Maryland University’s board unanimously selected Abagail Van Vlerah as the next president,...

The U.S. Department of Education published final accountability regulations establishing an earnings-based framework for all Title IV programs, implementing changes from the One Big Beautiful Bill...

The National Education Association (NEA) approved spending from its national contingency fund to address issues confronting teachers, including immigration enforcement and artificial intelligence...

Gulf states are ramping operational resilience as cyberattacks rise and attackers increasingly deploy AI, according to a report focused on the region’s threat environment. It cites UAE figures...

New research finds open educational resources (OER) can improve outcomes beyond cost savings, with particular impact on student completion. An American Association of Colleges and Universities...

UK lawmakers said comparisons of student loan repayments to phone contracts or cinema tickets “amounted to mis-selling,” and urged a course correction on repayment-threshold policy. A Treasury...

A new critique argues that AI didn’t create higher education’s core problems—it exposed the “credential trap,” where students and institutions increasingly treat degrees as economic outputs rather...

A higher-education-focused security perspective highlights “security debt”—the future cost and risk that accumulate when IT systems are not designed and maintained with security as a core...

An AI-cheating account claims that students used AI tools extensively and that administrators at Brown University did not respond with sufficient urgency. The piece centers on Roberto Serrano’s...

The U.S. Department of Education has issued final accountability regulations for Title IV programs built around an earnings-based “Do No Harm” framework. The rules implement changes tied to the...

Some religious colleges received a reprieve from the final earnings test outcomes tied to federal student aid accountability, according to reporting on the Department’s final earnings test...

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges placed Mary Baldwin University on probation for good cause for 12 months, signaling a heightened risk of accreditation loss tied...

Florida International University has penalized seven students for a silent protest held in March inside the audience of a campus event. The students wore shirts reading “ICE OFF FIU,” and FIU...

New research finds that open educational resources’ biggest impact may be on completion rather than cost savings alone. The American Association of Colleges and Universities report examined two...

A new assessment approach argues institutions should grade what students understand rather than what they can submit with AI support. The proposed framework, described as “Grade the Human, Not the...

A new higher-ed cybersecurity brief highlights “security debt” as a growing parallel to technical debt—where legacy IT choices increase future risk and cost. The piece frames security debt as the...

Research universities are admitting fewer Ph.D. students, according to reporting that frames shrinking doctoral programs as a negative sign for science pipelines. The central driver described is...

UK MPs have criticized government student loan communications that compared repayments to phone contracts or cinema tickets, calling it “mis-selling” in a new report from the Treasury Committee....

A reported antisemitic incident has renewed pressure on Cornell to evaluate campus enforcement practices around hate speech and discrimination. The argument presented is that campus policing may...