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The Penn State Board of Trustees successfully voted on May 22 to approve the university’s plans to close seven of its 20 college campuses to cut down on growing financial challenges and declining enrollment. The campuses due to close will affect 3.4% of the system’s faculty and more than 500 of its total staff. Read more
After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure. Read more
New York University is offering a class on transgender and queer “approaches to domesticity” for the fall 2025 semester. The course description poses the question, “Is home always cis and straight?” Read more
When she graduates this spring, Katelyn Thomas will have both a high school diploma and an associate degree, and enough credits to race through a bachelor’s degree at the University of Washington in two years. Read more
The University of Idaho on Tuesday called off plans to buy the operations and assets of the University of Phoenix, acknowledging for the first time in public what had become apparent after two years of stalled and unproductive negotiations with the online, for-profit college. Read more
The Trump administration called on Middle States to take action against Columbia for alleged civil rights violations, arguing it is out of compliance with accreditation standards. Read more
Satisfaction with pay and benefits lags well behind other sectors but career development improving, survey finds Read more
More students who previously stopped out of college without earning a credential are re-enrolling at even higher rates, signaling a growing momentum in returning adult learners. Read more
If it feels like there are a lot of billionaires mucking around in higher education, that might be because there are. In 1989, private-equity and hedge-fund managers held 3 percent of board seats at the top 30 private universities as ranked by Times Higher Education Read more
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center finds more students are leaving higher ed without a degree each year than are re-enrolling and completing. Read more
