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Scammers using AI to enroll fake students in online classes, then steal financial aid
It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College? Read more
Are Australian universities crying wolf over their finances?
Redundancies are being pushed through at many universities even as their accounts attest to relatively robust financial health. Read more
Three Liberty University students sue Virginia for excluding them from scholarship program
Three Virginia students are suing the commonwealth of Virginia in federal court after being denied access to state-run tuition assistance programs because of their choice to pursue religious studies. Read more
Trump aims to slash Pell Grants, which may limit low-income students’ college access
For many students and their families, federal student aid is key for college access. Read more
In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like.
Harvard University has spent the last year slowly dismantling a religious-studies program that critics said was biased against Israel, five current and former university employees told The Chronicle. Read more
The everyday activity that can reveal your brain’s age
The speed at which you walk can reveal profound insights into your brain's rate of ageing – with slower walkers having smaller brains and fundamental differences in crucial structures. Read more
Preserving the Federal Data Trump Is Trying to Purge
For months, the research community has been racing to download and store thousands of demographic data sets the government wants to delete because they don’t align with the Trump administration’s ideological views. Read more
Universities’ AI safeguards promote ‘enforcement illusion’
The only way to prevent AI from undermining assessments is to design them that way, Australian researchers argue Read more
75% of Truman Scholars involved in liberal politics a decade later, analysis finds
Truman Scholarship award winners stayed involved in liberal political issues a decade after winning the taxpayer-funded scholarship, according to an analysis by The College Fix. Read more
