The Massachusetts House is considering a bill that would require higher education institutions like Harvard to pay a fee for admissions processes that consider legacy status or relationships to donors or that include an early decision plan. Read more

Campus shootings have become a major concern for those from abroad, particularly Asia. For many, a U.S. education is still worth the risk—but experts say each incident makes recruitment harder. Read more

Riley Gaines was attacked by a mob of pro-trans protesters on Thursday night during a “Save Women’s Sports” event at San Francisco State University (SFSU), which was exacerbated by a lack of safety planning by the University. During the incident, Gaines was allegedly hit by a biologically male transgender protester. Read more

Representatives from a dozen colleges met at Georgetown University last week to discuss three-year bachelor’s degree pilot programs. Their ambitions are grand, but the future is uncertain. Read more

To retain students, US institutions must give credit for learning that occurs in professional settings, say Stephen Handel and Eileen Strempel Read more

People were getting high on hallucinogenic drugs in Spain around 3,000 years ago, according to new research. Read more

The academic workforce in the U.S. is slowly but surely relying more heavily on contingent faculty and graduate student employees as tenure and tenure-track faculty positions decline, according to a key summary from the American Association of University Professors. Read more

Campus Reform’s Very Own Peter Cottontail went hopping down the bunny trail to University of Maryland College Park, to survey what students thought of a new “inclusive language guide” from Michigan State University. Read more

The Harvard environmental law professor at the centre of a conflict-of-interest row lobbied the regulator on behalf of the oil and gas company that pays her more than $350,000 a year, a new investigation can reveal. Read more

Tulane University wants to hire an “Activist Media” professor by this summer who has a background in “the lived experience of BIPOC or marginalized communities and explores the relationships between media and politics or social justice.” Read more