Aid-setting exemption ends for top US universities
As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay Read more
‘The System Needs to Be Changed’
New paper suggests introductory STEM courses disproportionately push underrepresented minority students out of the natural and applied sciences. Read more
Harvard Law students walk out on pro-life scholar before she started speaking
Approximately two-thirds of a Harvard Law School audience walked out on an event with a pro-life legal scholar on the future of America “After Dobbs,” according to the speaker. Read more
Physics Nobel rewards ‘spooky science’ of entanglement
This year's Nobel Prize in Physics rewards research into quantum mechanics - the science that describes nature at the smallest scales. Read more
By the numbers: How different is this fully online university from a traditional one?
The theme adopted by the fully online Western Governors University in reaching its silver anniversary this year is “25 Years of Breaking Tradition.” Indeed, WGU has kicked the four-year model to the curb, especially over the past decade. Read more
Female athletes are victimized by trans athletes, lawsuit argues
'The reason that we’ve had women’s sports as a separate category for more than 50 years in our country is because we recognize that there are real, physical differences between males and females.' Read more
Tennessee universities refuse comment on how they will implement new intellectual diversity law
Public university leaders in Tennessee are staying silent on how and when they plan to follow a new state law that requires them to implement intellectual diversity on their campuses. Read more
Senate Republicans: Title IX proposals erase 50 years of progress
“The current Administration has seized our nation’s primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, to enact political, social and cultural change, with no regard for the harmful repercussions or the rule of law.” Read more
Iranian universities brace for ‘purges’ as protests spread
Academics believe regime is ‘unlikely’ to silence ‘spirit of opposition’ gaining momentum across hundreds of campuses Read more
Nobel Prize goes to Svante Paabo for Neanderthal work
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has gone to Sweden's Svante Paabo for his work on human evolution. Read more
