Latest Higher Education News

In two separate legal developments with direct implications for higher education technology and student privacy, Meta and Anthropic faced renewed scrutiny over how AI systems handle sensitive data...

Two faculty labor actions escalated into visible disruptions this week, underlining that compensation stagnation remains a core fault line in higher education staffing. New York University’s...

Kentucky lawmakers advanced new restrictions on faculty employment protections that would make it easier for public college boards to terminate faculty under broadly defined financial...

Walla Walla Community College is weighing multi-year staffing reductions and potential downsizing of its Clarkston satellite campus after trustees discussed a plan to cut $4.3 million from the...

Accreditation and federal oversight moved further into conflict mode as U.S. Education Department actions and signals prompted a sharp rebuttal from a major accreditor. The Higher Learning...

The U.S. Department of Education advanced a major operational shift that will move substantial parts of student-loan management and related systems away from the agency’s direct...

The Justice Department escalated higher education admissions scrutiny into professional programs by requesting detailed applicant information from three medical schools. Investigations announced...

Old Dominion University launched a hands-on AI literacy initiative intended to connect students, faculty, and industry around real-world AI use cases. Through a partnership with Google Public...

Indiana University is winding down a voluntary retirement program that included a non-disparagement clause—an approach critics said could chill free speech and academic freedom. The one-time...

Higher education’s shift to cloud infrastructure is forcing security teams to rethink what “perimeter defense” means as systems and data are accessed from everywhere. Reporting on cloud security...

High school districts are beginning to pilot AI-powered college counseling tools aimed at easing procedural bottlenecks for overwhelmed counselors. Reporting describes an AI counseling approach...

The Trump Justice Department has opened admissions-related investigations into Stanford University, Ohio State University, and the University of California, San Diego, seeking years of applicant...

The U.S. Department of Education is accelerating its downsizing and transferring major program operations. The agency announced it will abandon its long-time headquarters in the Lyndon B. Johnson...

The president of the Higher Learning Commission issued a direct challenge to the Trump administration’s pressure campaign tied to accreditation oversight, arguing the accreditor will not “buckle”...

A key federal student-aid issue is entering board-level discussions as Pell Grant funding faces a projected structural shortfall. In a federal policy update conversation, AGB and Penn Hill Group...

Florida’s Board of Governors moved to remove “Introduction to Sociology” from general-education curriculum options across the state university system after years of conflict over ideological...

Kentucky lawmakers advanced a proposal that could trigger a dramatic academic and operational overhaul at Kentucky State University, the state’s only public historically Black college. Under SB...

Universities are confronting a new security gap as they migrate from campus network perimeters to cloud-based infrastructure. A new higher-education-focused cybersecurity explainer highlights that...

Faculty at Colorado and California institutions are pushing back against OpenAI-centered deals as campuses pay tech companies for custom AI-powered access for students and faculty. The dispute...

The Department of Education has appointed Siri Terjesen as a new member of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI), replacing Joshua Figueira after his...