Colleges and universities have become well aware of the growing mental health crisis plaguing students, especially their first-years who developed during the pandemic. However, a new report reveals that the problem isn’t contained to students; higher education should also take stock in evaluating their staff’s mental health. Read more

Florida’s State Board of Education imposed new prohibitions on DEI spending at state colleges, following a similar decision for state universities. Read more

Universities end offers of on-campus dormitories to career-focused master’s students Read more

Scientific research requires updated and accurate information — but retracted papers still find their way into scholarship, according to several experts who also provided ways to fix this problem. Read more

Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to humans. Read more

Opening up the college-prep programs to undocumented students has been a priority for years. But some administrators say the political climate is too fraught to make such a change now. Read more

Exodus of junior scholars from Europe tips balance of university workforce Read more

Matter-of-fact accounting of the legal mechanism of slavery provides insight into American history and the country’s fraught present Read more

The University of Illinois Springfield recently received a nearly $700,000 federal grant to conduct diversity and anti-bias training for law enforcement officers. Read more

Improving the nation’s overall AI literacy starts with developing interdisciplinary programs with nontraditional learners in mind and developing hands-on lab opportunities to facilitate a new wave of digital education. Funding for these and other higher education AI literacy initiatives is included in the bipartisan “Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act of 2023” recently drafted in Congress. Read more