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Texas A&M shutters women’s and gender studies: courses canceled, curriculum rewritten
Texas A&M announced it will close its women’s and gender studies program, cancel six classes and require instructors to remove or change course material after a systemwide review of 5,400 courses....
Universities tighten budgets and compliance: Penn orders cuts — UVa outlines DOJ changes
The University of Pennsylvania told schools and centers to trim certain expenditures by about 4% as it braces for federal policy shifts including higher endowment taxes and limits on graduate...
Accreditation under pressure: regulators brace for overhaul and legal fights
Accreditors and higher‑education leaders warned at a national conference that the federal government’s push to refocus accreditation on measurable student outcomes and allow new accrediting bodies...
Direct admissions spread: colleges still testing what works
More than 300 colleges now extend offers through direct admissions programs that proactively admit students who meet set criteria, and enrollment leaders say the tactic requires different outreach...
Colleges split on AI: strategy versus avoidance — Purdue and DeVry set roadmaps
Higher education is diverging on artificial intelligence policy: some campuses are publishing cohesive AI strategies and integrating gen‑AI into curricula, while others still focus narrowly on...
AI tools in classrooms: experiment in better disagreement vs. Brookings’ warning
A scholarly experiment and classroom pilots show chatbots designed to scaffold debate can improve the quality of student disagreement and discussion, offering a new tool for pedagogy. Some...
Community colleges positioned as America’s AI talent engine — NSF funds consortium
The National Science Foundation awarded $2.8 million to establish the National Applied AI Consortium, centering community colleges in a national strategy to produce AI technicians and applied‑AI...
College leaders target economic mobility: tailored supports, data-driven outcomes
Presidents from Ferris State, Lamar University and Cal State San Bernardino outlined targeted interventions to improve graduates’ earnings and upward mobility: use of data to identify low‑income...
Loan rules tighten on both sides of the Atlantic: UK threshold freeze and U.S. loan limits advance
Student‑finance shifts accelerated in two major higher‑education markets. In the U.K., Chancellor Rachel Reeves defended a freeze to the Plan 2 repayment threshold — a decision critics say treats...
Immigration enforcement reshapes campus life: Minneapolis schools and colleges respond
Federal immigration operations in Minneapolis have forced K‑12 districts and colleges to alter operations, increase virtual options, and offer legal and material support. Augsburg University’s...
Texas A&M ends women’s and gender studies—policy review shutters program
Texas A&M announced it will end its women’s and gender studies program and cancel six classes as part of a sweeping curricular review that limits how faculty may teach race and gender. Interim...
U.Va. to DOJ: we cut DEI offices but left teaching intact
The University of Virginia submitted its first quarterly compliance report under a deal with the Justice Department, saying it has shuttered diversity offices, removed language that might suggest...
Accreditors brace for overhaul: sector warns against politicized standards
Accrediting agencies and college leaders met this week amid growing uncertainty as the Education Department signals regulatory changes and the Trump administration pushes new expectations for...
Penn orders 4% cuts — endowment tax and loan changes force belt‑tightening
The University of Pennsylvania told schools and centers to trim certain expenditures by 4% for the coming fiscal year as it adapts to federal policy shifts, citing prospective endowment taxes and...
Colleges scale direct admissions—enrollment gains uncertain
More than 300 colleges have adopted direct admissions programs that automatically offer enrollment to students who meet preset criteria, but institutions report mixed outcomes. Enrollment leaders...
The worst AI strategy is no strategy — and community colleges are becoming AI’s talent feed
Higher education is wrestling with AI strategy: some institutions publish comprehensive campus plans while others still treat AI as a compliance problem. Purdue’s public push for a cohesive AI...
Loan limits and repayment thresholds shift—policy windows open in U.S. and U.K.
Regulators in both the U.S. and U.K. are moving on student‑debt policy. The U.S. Department of Education advanced a rulemaking that would finalize new loan limits and take effect July 1, a step...
ICE enforcement reshapes campus life in Minneapolis—business school to campus leaders respond
The federal immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis has forced business schools and university leaders to change operations, expand virtual offerings and retool student supports. A...
Harvard tenure fight goes public—Edelman disputes review quotes
Newly released documents in Ben Edelman’s lawsuit over a denied Harvard Business School tenure bid show internal Faculty Review Board excerpts that Edelman says were edited and presented out of...
Nonhuman identities multiply—campuses confront machine‑identity security
As colleges adopt automation and AI systems, security teams warn nonhuman identities (NHIs)—machine accounts, APIs and service credentials—now vastly outnumber human users in institutional...