Latest Higher Education News

A nationwide women’s personal safety survey published in 2025 continues to highlight how safety concerns shape campus movement and participation. The survey of 1,500 women ages 18 to 50 found that...

Portland Community College faculty and staff remained on strike as negotiations moved into a second week, with leaders and two unions preparing for another bargaining session. The dispute has...

Hampshire College received a show-cause directive from its accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE), putting the institution at risk of probation or accreditation...

The U.S. Department of Education opened two new investigations into Harvard University, targeting alleged antisemitic harassment and the university’s admissions practices after the Supreme Court’s...

Higher education institutions are increasingly finding that AI is not just a new tool for students and faculty—it is becoming a competing source of learning, with libraries and instructors...

Boston University took down pride flags displayed in outward-facing faculty office windows and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies program, prompting disputes over free-speech boundaries...

Community stakeholders submitted nomination letters for primary negotiators across stakeholder categories for the Department of Education’s Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM)...

Virginia lawmakers moved toward expanding public-employee collective bargaining rules but left faculty and graduate workers outside the new framework. The report says a bill was sent to the...

As the federal fiscal year progresses, NIH has obligated only about 15% of research funding halfway through the year, raising concerns in the science community about end-of-year funding...

Students sued University of Alabama trustees after the school suspended two student-run magazines serving women and Black student audiences, according to a complaint filed in federal court. The...

New analysis from the Brookings Institution found that average net tuition at four-year colleges has declined when adjusted for inflation since 2019-20, countering widespread public impressions...

The Department of Education has opened two formal investigations into Harvard University this week, one probing alleged antisemitic harassment and another reviewing possible illegal race-based...

The Department of Education announced a plan to shift responsibility for the roughly $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department, starting with defaulted loans....

Stakeholders weighed in on the Department of Education’s rulemaking and advisory structures this week with formal community letters and nominations tied to the Accreditation, Innovation and...

Boston University quietly removed pride flags displayed in outward-facing faculty office windows, prompting faculty criticism and a debate over institutional speech rules. University President...

Student staffers at the University of Alabama sued the university trustees this week after officials abruptly suspended two campus magazines published for women and Black students. Plaintiffs...

Two major faculty and staff labor actions hit higher ed this week: roughly 950 non-tenure-track NYU faculty staged a walkout seeking higher pay and job protections, and Portland Community...

Canvas rolled out an AI teaching agent this week designed to automate low-value instructional tasks while stopping short of fully automating grading, and the University of Sydney published a...

A new RAND survey and campus initiatives capture mounting concern: nearly seven in 10 K–College students report worry that AI use is harming critical thinking, and institutions like Cornell are...

Several colleges announced leadership changes this month as institutions balanced growth agendas and governance scrutiny. Ohio State named Ravi V. Bellamkonda as its 18th president following...