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The Florida Board of Governors moved to slow the University of Florida’s presidential search over governance and compliance concerns, but UF trustees went ahead anyway—appointing Stuart Bell as...

University of Connecticut leaders expanded budget-tightening actions to close a sizable fiscal gap while reaffirming plans to keep undergraduate tuition flat and increase institutional student...

The White House Office of Management and Budget has completed its review of a rule that would end the duration of status protections for international students, clearing the path for the...

An arbitrator ordered reinstatement with a reduced penalty for a tenured San José State University professor fired in 2025 after participating in pro-Palestinian student protests, in a case framed...

CHEA named Antoinette Flores as vice president for federal policy and government relations, placing a new federal-policy lead at the center of how accreditation and quality assurance interface...

Texas’s higher education ombudsman position—which was created to investigate alleged violations of the state’s DEI and faculty governance restrictions—dismissed dozens of complaints, according to...

A Massachusetts report recommended requiring high school students and families to complete the FAFSA (or Massachusetts state aid application) or submit a low-barrier opt-out, tying graduation...

Whitman College announced a “10% Promise” tuition cap that limits what families pay in tuition to no more than 10% of parental adjusted gross income, with scholarships intended to cover full...

State policymakers are restructuring education and workforce governance with a clear focus on strengthening labor pipelines, as workforce development becomes a top priority for higher education...

An arbitrator’s decision in the San José State case underscores how campus protest conflicts are increasingly treated as institutional governance and due-process issues—not only political...

The White House Office of Management and Budget cleared the Trump administration’s duration-of-status overhaul, allowing the Department of Homeland Security to finalize a rule that would replace...

The Florida Board of Governors moved to slow the University of Florida’s presidential hiring process after compliance concerns, but trustees proceeded anyway, hiring Stuart Bell as interim...

University of Connecticut leadership expanded budget-tightening measures to close an estimated multi-part deficit across its academic campuses and healthcare center, while reaffirming a...

A California arbitrator ordered San José State University to reinstate tenured professor Sang Hea Kil, who was fired in 2025 after participating in pro-Palestinian student protests. The California...

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission opened an antisemitism probe into the National Education Association, according to the Louis D. Brandeis Center, which filed the underlying...

Technology Innovation Institute argued that enterprises need proof—rather than promises—before deploying AI agents that retrieve sensitive data, execute actions through tools and APIs, and update...

A new Milltown Partners survey and related monitoring data suggest that data center opposition in the U.S. has become national rather than purely local. The report says only 8% of Americans who...

Whitman College announced a “10% Promise” that caps tuition at no more than 10% of a family’s annual income and uses scholarships to cover full tuition for families earning $100,000 or less. For...

A new perspective argues that “specifications grading” can improve both student motivation and work quality. The piece reports that nine out of 10 faculty who adopted the approach said it resulted...

The U.S. Department of Education’s foreign gifts disclosure dashboard has expanded public visibility into how colleges receive funding and contracts tied to foreign countries, but experts say the...