A federal appeals court overruled a decision blocking parts of Arkansas’ ban on teaching forms of “indoctrination” — including Critical Race Theory — allowing the state government to regulate the curriculum of public schools to avoid teaching discriminatory subjects. Read more

Republican lawmakers have a new obsession: academic-program review Read more

New international enrollments in the U.S. could drop by as many as 150,000 students in the next year, according to scenario modeling by NAFSA, the association of international educators, and JB International. Read more

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee higher education policy, a man with deep ties to the for-profit college industry, by a 50-to-45 vote on August 1. Read more

Chinese students and scholars face surveillance, harassment and self-censorship at British universities Read more

Concerns about election integrity have arisen after a University of Michigan international student’s illegal voting at a campus polling site highlighted risks of same-day registration fraud and inadequate voter verification processes. Read more

School districts, colleges and all other federal funding recipients were warned this week that the Department of Justice now considers DEI programs discriminatory and, therefore, illegal. Read more

For the first time, unemployment rates for young recent graduates are rising faster than for those without a college degree. Read more

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future. Read more

How two weeks at Hamilton College helped philosophy instructors become more innovative teachers. Read more