Montana is set to become the first US state to ban Chinese-owned media giant TikTok from personal devices. Read more

Three out of five faculty members at Virginia Commonwealth are on “term” contracts. The university has stopped offering them three-year contracts. Read more

Seven members of the University of Wyoming Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority are suing after the chapter admitted a 21-year-old biological male who identifies as female. Read more

A misinformed rush to churn out employable graduates combined with a zero-sum budgeting approach is denuding other departments Read more

Some students at Duke University want to see the namesake of their residence hall canceled due to his past support for the Confederacy and his ownership of slaves. Read more

A group of undocumented students and legal scholars are arguing that the University of California system legally can and should employ these students on their campuses. Read more

Nintendo has announced its latest game in the Zelda series has sold more than 10 million copies in just three days. Read more

While many universities are proud to talk about how they fight climate change, some also invest in and accept donations from the same oil companies that drive global warming. Experts and students are calling those schools hypocritical and are demanding change. Read more

Google recently announced the debut of its artificial intelligence-backed large language model, PaLM2, which, it claims, surpasses the existing GPT-4 in certain aspects and will serve people better. Read more

The University of Oxford will cut its ties with the Sackler family, whose wealth came from addictive opioid drugs, removing the family’s name from buildings, galleries and positions funded through their donations. Read more