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Directives from Chancellor Brandon Creighton restrict how faculty can teach race, sex and gender, and professors say the vagueness has pushed many to censor themselves.
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Directives from Chancellor Brandon Creighton restrict how faculty can teach race, sex and gender, and professors say the vagueness has pushed many to censor themselves.

The Citadel founder's donation funds a new CMU Miami campus and a major boost for the Pittsburgh school. The computer science school will carry his name.

Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV's 48-page order preserves the 'duration of status' system that has governed F-1 and J-1 visas for nearly 50 years. Eight higher-education groups and unions sued; the rule drew 22,000 public comments, most of them opposed.

HR 4795 would amend the Higher Education Act so any school running a commercial boycott of Israel, or of businesses in Israeli settlements, loses access to federal student aid. Two Republicans voted no.

Proposed regulations would deny 501(c)(3) status to private schools whose admissions, scholarships, aid or athletics take race into account. They would bite for tax years starting May 31, 2027.

Students learned by email late Wednesday that the university would no longer hold their spots. Some say they had scholarship money in hand that had not yet cleared.

Faculty and students are pressing Yale's leadership not to cut a deal with the Trump administration, which found the medical school admitted Black and Hispanic applicants with lower qualifications.

College students openly boo AI-related speakers at graduation ceremonies as companies accelerate artificial intelligence integration across industries.

The investigation, triggered by Smith's decision to award an honorary degree to former Biden health official Rachel Levine, tests whether women's colleges can keep admitting trans women.

The Massachusetts liberal arts institution known for self-designed concentrations and no traditional grades cited decades of enrollment decline and an endowment unable to sustain operations.

Administration's campaign to curtail foreign students hits institutions nationwide, forcing budget cuts and program eliminations across higher education.
WatchThe Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit Friday alleging Harvard leadership showed 'deliberate indifference' to the harassment, assault, and stalking of Jewish and Israeli students after October 7 — escalating the administration's financial war on elite universities to an unprecedented level.