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July 14, 2025
Twenty states, along with several teacher’s unions and school districts, had filed suit in March to prevent the layoffs.
July 3, 2025
Trump’s signature legislation hikes some endowment taxes, remakes student aid, and introduces a new accountability standard for colleges.
June 27, 2025
The sudden move followed a reported demand that James E. Ryan resign to resolve a Department of Justice investigation into DEI on the campus.
June 26, 2025
Officials in the Justice Department have suggested that James E. Ryan must depart because he did not completely eliminate UVa’s DEI efforts.
June 9, 2025
The program’s fate offers one example of how the university’s promises to deal with campus antisemitism look on the ground.
June 7, 2025
The so-called House settlement will allow colleges to directly pay their athletes for the first time.
June 3, 2025
The former U. of Michigan leader couldn’t shake accusations that he wasn’t conservative enough.
May 23, 2025
“Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” the lawsuit says.
May 22, 2025
The unprecedented move would also force existing foreign students to transfer to another college or lose their legal status.
May 21, 2025
HIV scientists were given a choice: Eliminate a study of transgender youth or lose a shot to recover a larger grant. They chose the former.
