Earlier this month, faculty at Bates College in Maine voted in favor of a new "Race, Power, Privilege, and Colonialism" (RPPC) course requirement that students must complete in order to graduate. Read more

The U.S. Department of Education announced today it will stop providing federal student grant and loan payments to Florida Career College (FCC), a for-profit school whose predatory practices Republic Report helped expose in a May 2020 investigation. Read more

The European Space Agency (Esa) has postponed a planned launch of a satellite to the planet Jupiter. Read more

A strong labor market and the rising cost of living are driving down domestic enrollments in Australia. Read more

A hundred new teachers from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region embarked on a study tour to the Chinese mainland on Tuesday — the first such tour. Read more

Harvard University will rename its graduate school of arts and sciences after the billionaire hedge fund executive and Republican mega-donor Kenneth Griffin, the institution announced on Tuesday, after a new $300m contribution brought Griffin’s total support of his alma mater to more than half a billion dollars. Read more

Harvard University finalized its first university-wide “anti-bullying” and “non-discrimination” policies, setting in motion a personnel expansion and raising free speech concerns. Read more

West Virginia’s institutions of higher education largely opposed campus carry. Campus leaders at big and small schools said they’ll need that much time to prepare. Read more

Southern Oregon University may eliminate 82 jobs to fill a $5 million budget hole. Those cuts are part of an ambitious plan to fix SOU’s finances and attract new revenue streams. Read more

Republicans in the Missouri State House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to strip all public libraries of their funding a week after lawmakers debated the budget proposal that Governor Mike Parson submitted to the legislature. Read more