Budget cuts—followed by tuition increases and staff layoffs—at Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities midway through the spring semester sent shockwaves through the higher education community as the sector copes with challenging deficits. Read more

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Students enrolled in short-term programs will qualify for Pell Grants under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Now federal, state and college officials need to figure out how to carry out the long-fought-for policy. Read more

An English professor at Eastern Maine Community College faces blowback — including calls from Republican lawmakers in the state to resign — after instructing a Christian conservative student to drop the issue of gun rights from her essay. Read more

Azraiel Raines dreamed of working for the State Department, when she graduated from Idaho State University with a degree in global studies. Read more

Shae-Marie Stafford-Trujillo has tried to do everything right on her path to becoming a doctor. Read more

As groups like the Institute of Museum and Library Services lose staff and grant funding, the consequences trickle down to colleges and universities. Read more

Republicans in multiple states passed laws this year pushing institutions to ax academic programs that graduate few students—and requiring them to appeal to state leaders if they want exemptions. Faculty lament the trend. Read more

The once epitomized Ivy League institutions of higher education now garner little trust among the American public. Read more

Several Harvard graduate schools shuttered their diversity, equity, and inclusion offices over the past two weeks, continuing the University’s effort to replace DEI programs that the Trump administration has broadly painted as illegal. Read more