Georgetown University, which touts itself as the oldest Catholic Jesuit university in the United States, founded in the 1790s, recently completed a major construction project erecting a large mosque on campus. Read more

British universities have agreed to a new three-year read-and-publish deal with Springer Nature, despite many expressing “significant reservations” over the high cost of publishing open access in prestige titles. Read more

South Florida State College President Thomas Leitzel is set to retire on June 30, leaving his position up for grabs Read more

President Xi Jinping has hailed students at China Agricultural University for their endeavors on the front line of agricultural production, and said they displayed a spirit that all Chinese youth should have in the new era. Read more

New Mexico’s higher education department is now acting against New Mexico State University. Read more

Practice in which a student creates a portfolio of study preferences and then receives offers helps US colleges boost size and diversity of new intake Read more

Accreditors said the plan was not practical and represented a shift for the former president. The issue of accreditation has become the subject of much debate between the two leading Republicans eyeing the presidency in 2024. Read more

Earlier this semester, Suzanne Dovi, Professor of Public Policy at the University of Arizona (UA), claimed that it is a myth that minorities receive any meaningful protection under American law, and that intent does not matter when it comes to racism. Read more

A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled that a Connecticut woman has grounds to sue Harvard University for emotional distress — but not for property rights violations — for possessing daguerreotypes depicting two enslaved people she claims as ancestors. Read more

The artificial intelligence race is already producing losers. On Tuesday, education companies trading on the London and New York stock exchanges saw hundreds of millions wiped from their valuations after Chegg, a US firm that provides online help to students for writing and maths work, said ChatGPT was affecting customer growth. Read more