Higher education

Higher education

The law assigns the historically Black land-grant university a new role as a polytechnic institution and exerts significant state control over its pocketbook and programming as the institution stabilizes its finances. Among other provisions, the law requires the university to get state approval for purchases over $20,000 and limits its offerings to 10 academic areas of study over the period of financial exigency.

Harvard University shared details in a new database about the people who were enslaved as well as those who owned them. Researchers with the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative say they've found at least 259 Harvard university leaders, faculty, staff and board members who enslaved individuals. The initiative, which began in 2022 as a way to identify the descendants of enslaved individuals, partnered with American Ancestors, a national genealogical nonprofit, on the project.

The Criss sisters share many things together, such as a love for tennis, restaurants, and movies. But the shared honor of representing their graduating class is among their greatest achievements.

Anil Kochhar, a North Carolina State University donor, gave graduates of the school's Wilson College of Textiles a lot more than just words of wisdom when he delivered their keynote commencement address recently. The Indian American entrepreneur also announced that he would pay off any student loans taken out by the college's graduating pupils during their senior year. I hope that all of you leave today not only with a degree but with greater freedom to pursue your goals, take risks and build the lives that you've worked so hard to achieve, Kochhar said, prompting loud cheers, applause and a standing ovation from his audience.

After Caulfield said AI is the next industrial revolution, a crowd of graduates booed.

In the 2024-25 academic year, nearly 10 million students were eligible for the Pell Grant. That's 6 percent more than the year before. Nearly eight million of them were eligible for the max award of $7,395, which is up 31 percent from 2023-24.

Further and Higher Education Minister James Lawless has said universities are “gaming the system” by creating “niche” courses with high points, resulting in students with 625 points missing out due to random selection.

Adrit Rao, 18, learned how to build apps in middle school by watching YouTube videos.

New York employers that sponsor foreign national employees for permanent residence are facing a materially different legal landscape under the state's Trapped at Work Act. As amended in early 2026, the law sharply restricts so-called stay or pay arrangements and significantly limits an employer's ability to recover costs from employees who leave before a specified period of service. Although the act does not explicitly reference immigration sponsorship, its structure, statutory language and legislative history strongly suggest that traditional green card reimbursement agreements are unlikely to be enforceable once the law becomes operative in February 2027.

When Russia invaded her home country of Ukraine in 2022, Anastasiia Pereverten was more than 5,000 miles away, studying at the University of Wyoming. From that distance, she watched a surge of support from Americans who were far removed from the conflict. "All this, so far away from Ukraine?" said Pereverten. "People were so incredibly vocal and supportive, and wanted to know more. I wanted to understand what shaped that."

Thirty former Ohio State football players, including some former NFL players, have agreed to join a federal lawsuit against the university over the sexual abuse of student athletes decades ago by a team doctor, a lawyer in the case said Thursday.