About 125,000 aid applicants will have their IDs checked this summer. The department says the move is necessary to protect taxpayers. Read more

How Santa Ono’s botched appointment became an allegory for a perilous political moment. Read more

A Portland State University professor has been placed on leave and is under investigation after a short video clip circulated on social media of her saying ‘I am Hamas … we’re all Hamas” at an off-campus rally. Read more

Near the end of his New York Magazine cover story detailing more than 18 months of turmoil at Columbia University, writer Nick Summers recounts an embarrassing scene that crisis management leaders of other institutions can learn from. Read more

Small private colleges are working together to lobby against the sweeping budget bill making its way through Congress that would hike taxes on endowments and land with particular force on their institutions. Read more

The former home secretary said restrictions announced in the recent White Paper will ‘put a squeeze’ on some universities Read more

At least three public universities in Louisiana require aspiring teachers to take “diversity, equity, and inclusion” courses, a conservative think tank recently reported. Read more

In his new book, David Rieff mourns a lost ideal Read more

New data from Tyton Partners shows that despite students’ embrace of generative AI, most far prefer human-centered support and skills-based learning. Read more

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