The University of Pennsylvania will concede to the Trump administration’s demands that the university “restore” swimming awards—and send apology notes—to female competitors who lost to a trans athlete, the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announced Tuesday. Read more

Disparities in impact-related support for UK academics may widen funding inequalities from Research Excellence Framework, scholars fear Read more

Purdue University could cut dozens of “low-enrollment programs” to comply with state law in the coming years, according to reports. Read more

Harvard University and the University of Toronto have unveiled a contingency plan that would allow select Harvard graduate students to continue their studies in Canada if U.S. visa restrictions prevent them from re-entering the United States. Read more

It’s a truism that, the more you learn, the more you realize how much you don’t know. That mentality holds in most traditional academic disciplines, where humility is a survival strategy that keeps us from stepping into ankle-breaking intellectual sinkholes known only to experts in unfamiliar fields and subfields and subsubfields. Read more

Workforce Pell is back in and senators exempted small colleges from the endowment tax. Read more

Affected professional services staff will be given the chance to apply for one of hundreds of new posts Read more

ChatGPT can pass a college-level engineering course, earning a B grade with “minimal effort,” researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently found. Read more

While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The location made it easy to visit the campuses of tech stalwarts such as Google, Apple, and Nvidia. Read more

In the midst of a flurry of federal-policy changes and threatened crackdowns on international students, Chinese students, in particular, are victims of whiplash. Read more