The Mellon Foundation, which awarded over $500 million in grants in 2021, recently ended two of its social science fellowships ‘as part of a broader refocusing on social justice.’ Read more

Education helps a person escape poverty. It doesn’t directly, in the short run, combat poverty. Read more

Congress’ CHIPS and Science Act was signed into law on the promise of jump-starting research and development and building a more inclusive technical workforce. Community colleges, which serve the majority of higher education’s low-income students and students of color, must be included in the conversation, experts say. Read more

Public universities nationwide in the last month have moved to restrict access to the popular social media app TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, as their state legislatures have banned the use of the app on government-owned devices and networks. Read more

The university’s effort to remove racist, violent and biased language from its website morphed into a PR disaster. Other colleges’ initiatives have fared better—perhaps because they are less transparent in their practices. Read more

Over 50 professors and students from Beni-Suef University attended an activity to experience the culture of Chinese Lunar New Year at the China Cultural Center in Cairo, Egypt, on Jan 4 Read more

Expert panel requested by Congress suggests conditions under which universities could be exempted from its general ban on partnerships with Chinese government-backed educational programme Read more

Colleges are dropping the SAT. Law schools are dropping the LSAT. And now, workplaces are dropping bachelor degrees—and experts think that should become the norm this year. Read more

In a conversation with presidents of small private colleges, tech company executives praise graduates’ leadership and critical thinking ability but say they need to develop skills for a first job, too. Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) will now require state universities to report any spending related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), according to a memo made public on Jan 4. Read more