Jane Austen, Frederick Douglass, Adam Smith and Søren Kierkegaard made the cut.

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The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new Pentagon partnerships with five non-Ivy League colleges and universities Wednesday amid his ongoing efforts to distance the military from America’…

With a new book from the late primatologist Frans de Waal and a deep dive into artificial intelligence from New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, there is some hard-hitting popular science to loo...

Champaign County currently has a shortage of 120 election judges. If the gap isn’t filled, the county may see certain polling locations close on Election Day, affecting voters’ experiences.

The new regulations mark a return to rules from the first Trump administration.

The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.

On September 18, 2026 on behalf of the Policy Committee, Professor Carol Symes (UIUC Chapter President) sent the following letter to President Timothy L. Killeen, the University of Illinois Board of T...

The American Association of University Professors called the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's push to gain readmission to the AAU into question following last year's program and position eliminations.

Theatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism

Who is up for a little Christian Nationalism embedded into our higher education system?

This webinar provides examples of how to conduct public records requests to gather and analyze information pertaining to an institution's technology contracts, correspondence between institutional adm...

Class action lawsuit seeks to stop censorship and termination of federally funded scientific research

More than 120 years after his death, local historians finally feel confident of the burial spot for the first Black man to vote in Illinois.

Abu Bilal built a secret wall in his home to protect his books from Syria’s former Assad regime.

New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas

Texas professors say concerns about academic freedom and restrictions on what can be taught have prompted them to look at jobs outside the state.

Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.

Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV wrote that the administration’s reasons for a rule limiting the length of stay for academics and journalists were “exceptionally weak.”

Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...

BY GRANT MINCY Buried inside the Department of Education’s proposed Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization (AIM) rule sits a single provision, § 602.23(j), that reads on the surface lik…