Amid the chaos of college sports, giving academic credit for athletic competition could return control to institutions—and show every student that their sport matters.

Scholars who don’t want Academia.edu to use AI to generate adaptations of their work should delete their accounts.

Inaction from rank-and-file workers enabled government censorship during the Red Scares.

From therapy dogs to tutoring hubs, Shields Library is redefining itself as a welcoming space for learning, connection and growth.

With less than a month before data is due, 81 percent of institutions recently surveyed say they are still working to collect and submit the required information.

Two weeks after introducing a policy that allowed administrators to secretly record faculty members during class, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor Lee Roberts told faculty he wou...

If Congress doesn’t add money to the Federal Student Aid account by Sept. 30, students could face dramatic grant cuts or eligibility restrictions.

The Trump administration asked the university to hand over personal information for the members of Jewish clubs and organizations as well as the Jewish Studies department.

Both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to release the rest of the trove of documents related to Epstein. Here are some of the key higher ed people mentioned so far.

Trump officials announced six agreements with four agencies to take over some of ED’s responsibilities.

NEWARK, Del., November 12, 2025--Sallie Mae, the leader in private student lending, has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with KKR, a leading global investment firm.

In this episode, Katherine Knott, Inside Higher Ed’s news editor, is ba

Trinity Christian College will close next year due to financial pressure following years of declining enrollment, stubborn deficits and an overreliance on a small donor pool.

Educause’s latest top 10 survey shows economic and political uncertainty are putting pressure on colleges to streamline their tech environments while keeping up with AI’s evolution.

Universities that rejected the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education emphasized merit in their responses and highlighted core values in turning it down.

The document would require signatories to make sweeping changes to policies and practices. A number of institutions have already said no, and more responses are expected.

The nine-page memo builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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The Education Department recently requested ideas on how to “modernize” the data collection and education research funding agency, and it sought to hire for a few positions.

Monday’s deadline to provide feedback on the Trump administration’s proposed deal passed with no signatories and silence from some university leaders invited to join.

Nine universities were asked to give “limited, targeted feedback” on the proposal by today. So far, six have rejected the deal.

The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”

ALT: a man in a white shirt with a red face is saying it 's a trap .

The scheduled meeting follows increasingly forceful pushback to the wide-ranging proposal.

The Trump administration threatened to lay off federal workers because of the government shutdown. Thousands reportedly got pink slips Friday.

MIT is the first institution to reject a proposal by the Trump administration that would trade preferential treatment on federal funding in exchange for far-reaching changes.

The institution says it started educating Saudi royal family members in the ’90s and later developed curricula for a Saudi “security college,” despite criticism. Now it could be the first university a...

Colleges and universities likely won’t face immediate issues, but research may be disrupted as grants pause.

Mark Welsh resigned Thursday after state lawmakers accused the university of pushing “leftist DEI and transgender indoctrination” on his watch.

The study also explores the changing politics of student bodies over the past four decades, showing that liberal campuses have grown more liberal and conservative campuses more conservative.

Chief academic officers are confident in academic quality but strained by limited resources, policy shifts and other mounting campus challenges, Inside Higher Ed’s annual survey finds.

Some HBCU advocates say their colleges are more deserving of the money than other minority-serving institutions. Others have more mixed feelings.

Nonprofits that advocate for first-gen students say that without the federally funded programs, college could become unattainable for hundreds of thousands of students.

Two administrators are now out of a job and a graduate student lost an internship after making comments online that downplayed or celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk, the influential conservative fou...

The provocateur supercharged the right’s depiction of campuses as intolerant, leftist spaces. Then he was killed on one while exercising free speech and debating students.

For more than 20 years, StoryCorps has been documenting conversations between Americans and broad

New report from the Brookings Institution shows that National Institutes of Health funding increases can boost labor markets in college towns. But if Trump’s proposed budget cuts takes effect, some wi...

Kirk was a driving force behind the modern conservative movement on college campuses.

Minority-serving institutions are in the news after a recent lawsuit targeted Hispanic-serving institutions. There are important differences among them.

Experts say the tactic is rather novel but anticipate the Trump administration will be using it more often.

After a court struck down the Texas Dream Act, thousands of undocumented students are left asking how—or if—they can finish their degrees.

The Trump administration has taken another step toward dismantling the Department of Education, creating a new integrated “state plan portal” that will allow the Department of Labor to jointly adminis...

As microcredentials proliferate and attract millions of students, some accreditors are ready to launch quality checks for alternative credential providers.