Reconsider reliance on US tech companies, universities warned
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Scholars raised concerns about how artificial intelligence may define the word “woman” or be used to perpetuate “colonialism” during a “Gender and AI: Promise and Perils” conference Friday at Harvard University. Read more
The Trump administration has already won major concessions from Columbia University as the institution fights to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. Read more
Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil who was detained in early March by U.S. immigration officials, is facing possible deportation for actions the government alleges goes against American foreign interests. Read more
The Trump administration has canceled several diversity, equity, and inclusion-related grants to university libraries as part of a broader effort through the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, to reduce government waste and inefficiency. Read more
Deep cuts to federal research funding and crackdowns on international students could mean far fewer graduate students next fall and beyond. If that happens, undergraduates, faculty and research productivity would all suffer. Read more
Some community colleges have stripped back DEI programming and made other cuts under federal and state pressures. Read more
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights was swamped before President Trump took a sledgehammer to it. Read more
A new Catholic trade school called The College of Saint Joseph the Worker recently opened in Steubenville, Ohio, to train students “in skilled and dignified labor.” Read more
Students earning certificates led to an increase in the number of undergraduate degrees awarded for the first time in three years. That surge, however, masked a pair of significant drops in higher ed completion rates. Read more