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fromwww.mercurynews.com
6 hours ago

California State University faculty sue over disclosure of personal information

The California Faculty Association has sued the California State University after the university system handed over the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 2,600 Los Angeles campus employees to the federal government in response to an antisemitism investigation. The lawsuit filed last week seeks a court order prohibiting CSU administrators from disclosing any faculty members' personal information in response to federal subpoenas without first providing notice to the impacted employees and giving them the opportunity to object.
Higher education
#philanthropy
fromwww.mercurynews.com
7 hours ago

Opinion: Most US Jews think Trump is exploiting antisemitism to attack universities

President Donald Trump insists that top universities must pay dearly for not protecting Jewish students. This includes cutting $790 million in medical and scientific research previously led by Northwestern University scholars. Michael Schill, then president of Northwestern, was berated by congressional Republicans for brokering a compromise with pro-Palestinian protesters last year, disbanding their tent cities while preserving free speech. He was too timid in stamping out campus antisemitism, Trump disciples argued. Shill stepped down last month.
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San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
14 hours ago

Vanderbilt University could potentially be opening satellite campus in downtown San Francisco

Vanderbilt University is exploring opening a satellite campus in downtown San Francisco, potentially in the San Francisco Chronicle building, to aid neighborhood revitalization.
#academic-freedom
fromSan Jose Spotlight
21 hours ago

San Jose State guarantees admission for South County students - San Jose Spotlight

"We exist to serve our region by providing an excellent, accessible education that equips students to succeed in college, career, and life," Teniente-Matson said in a statement.
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#college-roi
fromFortune
1 day ago
Higher education

Gen Z is snubbing college as a dismal job market and sky-high tuition forces them to weigh ROI: 'No schools are immune' | Fortune

fromFast Company
1 day ago
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Is a college degree worth the price? Universities are scrambling to prove their worth

fromFortune
1 day ago
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Gen Z is snubbing college as a dismal job market and sky-high tuition forces them to weigh ROI: 'No schools are immune' | Fortune

fromFast Company
1 day ago
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Is a college degree worth the price? Universities are scrambling to prove their worth

#federal-policy
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 day ago

Institutions, Advocates Argue Against Admissions Data Collection

Under the Department of Education's proposed Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, institutions would have to submit applied, admitted and enrolled student data broken down by test score quintiles, grade point average quintiles, income ranges, Pell Grant eligibility and parental education levels, as well as data regarding aid and student outcomes. Institutions would also be required to send historical data going back to 2020.
Higher education
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 day ago

Trump's Latest Layoffs Gut the Office of Postsecondary Ed

It's enormously disruptive to the students who are reliant on these services to answer questions and get the information they need about college enrollment and financial aid as they apply and student supports once they enroll,
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Higher education
fromFast Company
1 day ago

Don't believe the hype about college mayhem

College enrollment is rebounding, showing young Americans remain practical, hardworking, and committed to higher education despite institutional controversies.
#dei
fromHarvard Gazette
1 day ago

When your English teacher writes a book on Taylor Swift - Harvard Gazette

When Stephanie Burt decided to carry a pink and blue Taylor Swift tote bag to class one day in fall 2023, she just thought it would be a fun way to transport her books and laptop, and let her students know she was a Swiftie. The Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English had no idea that just one semester later she would be teaching a Taylor Swift lecture course to 200 undergraduates
Music
fromBoston.com
1 day ago

Readers: How long have you been searching for a job?

Tell Us We want to hear from job seekers in Massachusetts about how long you've been looking - and what your experience has been like in today's market. Recent layoffs, tough competition, and slow job growth rates have made this one of the most challenging job markets in years for Massachusetts residents. If you're actively looking for a job right now, we'd like to hear from you. How long have you been on the hunt - weeks, months, a year or more?
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Social justice
fromIT Pro
2 days ago

Disability pride in IT: How leaders can better understand workers

Disability pride is growing despite historical discrimination, with Disability Pride Month, a flag, intersectional advocacy, and increasing support within and beyond tech.
#artificial-intelligence
fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago
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Should College Get Harder?

A.I. threatens knowledge work while college appears easier, indicating a need to rethink higher-education teaching, assessment, and incentives.
Higher education
fromBusiness Matters
3 days ago

Why Postgraduate Study is Becoming Essential for Research Careers

Postgraduate study develops leadership, analytical, and practical skills that enable professionals to advance into senior and specialist roles across sectors.
fromNature
3 days ago

Inside our university's mission to pivot to research

The global challenges of today, from climate-fuelled floods, droughts and heatwaves to food insecurity and health disparities, are felt intensely in Africa. To tackle those, universities on the continent must strengthen their research and innovation capacity. On average, African countries spend around 0.5% of their gross domestic product on research and development. That's less than one-quarter of the global average of 2.7%.
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California
fromwww.eastbaytimes.com
3 days ago

California's Newsom signs a reparations study law but vetoes other racial justice proposals

Governor Newsom funded a study on verifying descendants of enslaved people but vetoed several reparative bills proposed by the California Legislative Black Caucus.
SF LGBT
fromSan Francisco Bay Times
3 days ago

Honorees for the Inaugural Honoring LGBTQ+ Bay Area Latine Leaders - San Francisco Bay Times

An inaugural Honoring LGBTQ+ Bay Area Latine Leaders event on October 24, 2025 will benefit Use the News Foundation and El/La Para TransLatinas and celebrate diverse local Latine LGBTQ+ leadership.
Fundraising
fromFortune
4 days ago

Home Depot founder Arthur Blank donates $50 million to Atlanta's historically Black colleges and universities via foundation | Fortune

A $50 million donation will fund gap scholarships for nearly 10,000 Atlanta HBCU students to help them complete degrees and raise graduation rates.
Higher education
fromwww.npr.org
4 days ago

She was about to drop out of college, but then her professor stepped in

A drama teacher claimed a college scholarship covered a struggling student's semester, paying for her to continue college despite her severe financial hardship.
#gaza
fromFuturism
5 days ago

University Using AI to Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating With AI

Academic Integrity Concern,
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fromTruthout
6 days ago

MIT Becomes First School to Reject Trump's "Loyalty Oath" for Higher Education

MIT refused to sign President Trump's Compact for Academic Excellence, rejecting a pledge that conditions federal funding on specified institutional principles.
#federal-funding
California
fromsfist.com
1 week ago

Friday Morning Constitutional: Freeway Shootout In Oakland Leads to Arrest In Walnut Creek

Bay Area saw multiple public-safety, civic, weather, and property developments; MIT declined to sign Trump's conservative-speech pledge.
#free-speech
fromBoston.com
1 week ago
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MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

fromTruthout
1 week ago
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Rutgers Unions Call to Disband Turning Point Chapter After Colleague Targeted

fromBoston.com
1 week ago
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MIT president says she 'cannot support' proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits

fromTruthout
1 week ago
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Rutgers Unions Call to Disband Turning Point Chapter After Colleague Targeted

Higher education
fromTime Out London
1 week ago

All the London universities that feature in a new highly respected ranking of the best in the world

Five London universities rank among the world's top 200 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2026.
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Microsoft warns of 'payroll pirate' attacks against US unis

In a blog post, Redmond said a cybercrime crew it tracks as Storm-2657 has been targeting university employees since March 2025, hijacking salaries by breaking into HR software such as Workday. The attack is as audacious as it is simple: compromise HR and email accounts, quietly change payroll settings, and redirect pay packets into attacker-controlled bank accounts. Microsoft has dubbed the operation "payroll pirate," a nod to the way crooks plunder staff wages without touching the employer's systems directly.
Information security
fromIT Pro
1 week ago

'Payroll Pirates' target US universities, Microsoft warns

"However, it's important to note that any SaaS systems storing HR or payment and bank account information could be easily targeted with the same technique," Microsoft researchers said. "These attacks don't represent any vulnerability in the Workday platform or products, but rather financially motivated threat actors using sophisticated social engineering tactics and taking advantage of the complete lack of multifactor authentication (MFA) or lack of phishing-resistant MFA to compromise accounts."
Information security
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Which Higher Ed Cases Will SCOTUS Take On?

As the Supreme Court begins its new term this week, legal experts predict that higher education will be a frequent subject for the justices. Yet only two college-related cases-both of which center on transgender rights-are currently listed on the main docket. That's in large part because of a less formal but increasingly popular second list of cases known as the shadow docket. Historically, the shadow docket, also called the emergency docket, was used on rare occasions for just that-emergencies.
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#college-admissions
fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago
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Trump asks MIT, 8 other colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money

fromBoston.com
2 weeks ago
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Trump asks MIT, 8 other colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money

fromFast Company
1 week ago

University of Phoenix IPO: All eyes on the stock price as education partners go public during shutdown

"Phoenix Education Partners, parent company of the for-profit University of Phoenix, which announced its IPO plans one day before the shutdown began, said on Wednesday that it has priced its shares at $32. That's the midpoint of its earlier targeted range of between $31 and $33 a share. The company intends to list on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the "PXED" ticker symbol. Selling shareholders will offer roughly 4.3 million shares of its common stock,"
Education
#university-rankings
fromTime Out London
2 weeks ago
UK news

Every London university ranked best to worst, according to the 2026 Times University Rankings

London School of Economics retained the top UK university ranking in 2026 with a perfect 1,000 score, leading on continuation and graduate prospects.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Texas Systems Review Course Descriptions, Syllabi

The impetus is clear: Texas A&M University fired a professor, demoted two administrators and pushed out its president after conservative politicians lambasted the institution for a lesson on gender identity in a children's literature class. Their criticism hinged on the fact that the topic was not reflected in the brief course catalog description for the class. Before he resigned, Texas A&M president Mark Welsh ordered an audit of all courses at the flagship campus,
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Transparency Now or Regulation Later

Doctors predicted Wayne Frederick, the president of Howard University, wouldn't live past 8. Now he's 54. Frederick came to the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago with a dream of finding a cure for his disease, sickle cell anemia, but detoured into higher ed administration. At an event hosted by the American Council on Education at Howard University this week, Frederick said CRISPR gene editing, a technology developed in academia, made his dream a reality.
Education
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fromLindsey Gamble
1 week ago

Syracuse Launches Nation's First Creator Economy Center - Lindsey Gamble

Syracuse University opened the nation's first academic Center for the Creator Economy to train students for digital content careers via courses, mentorship, research, and partnerships.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

AAUP, Other Unions Sue Trump Admin Over H-1B Fee

The fee, the complaint states, "will result in significant and potentially catastrophic setbacks to research that benefits the American public and ensures the United States remains a leading source of innovation and expertise. For example, the fee will likely result in sharp cutbacks in the employment of highly talented foreign workers and severe setbacks for university research, graduate programs, and clinical care, compounding an anticipated shortfall of 5.3 million skilled workers over the next decade."
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Economic Uncertainty Spurred Campus Cuts in September

WashU chancellor Andrew Martin announced last month that the private university had cut 316 staff positions and closed another 198 vacant roles as part of an effort to restructure or reduce budgets. He wrote that the cuts, which extend to WashU's Medical Campus, total "more than $52 million in annual savings." The chancellor cited both external and internal pressures.
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fromIndependent
1 week ago

Alleged assault victim seeks damages from university over refusal to allow her re-sit missed exams

University accused of denying exam resit allowances after student alleges serious assault; student suing for damages in High Court.
Education
fromBoston.com
1 week ago

Harvard students skip class and still get high grades, faculty say

Many Harvard students skip class, avoid discussion, and remain in ideological bubbles due to fear of disagreement, poor preparation, device distraction, and grade inflation.
Higher education
fromFortune
1 week ago

Colleges teach learning, but they're not learning how to survive | Fortune

Higher education must restructure to integrate industry-aligned, applied learning with academic rigor, becoming an active partner in the talent supply chain to improve outcomes.
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fromFast Company
1 week ago

Ignition Schools 2025: Driving entrepreneurship and innovation

Colleges must broaden entrepreneurial education, combining adaptability, incubators, and community-focused innovation to prepare diverse future entrepreneurs amid AI advances and research funding challenges.
Design
fromwww.archdaily.com
1 week ago

Soochow University Future Campus Phase 1 / Nikken Sekkei

Soochow University Future Campus integrates education, research, and industry as a suburban satellite campus 30 km south of Suzhou, with phase one completed in 2022.
Startup companies
fromFortune
1 week ago

Jeff Bezos tells Gen Z entrepreneurs to gain work experience before launching new companies: 'I started Amazon when I was 30' | Fortune

Work experience and completing a degree increase the odds of founding a successful company; college dropouts like Zuckerberg and Gates are exceptions.
#generative-ai
fromwww.npr.org
2 weeks ago
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Research, curriculum and grading: new data sheds light on how professors are using AI

Generative AI tools like Gemini and Claude are increasingly used by higher-education faculty for curriculum design, grading, and time-saving administrative tasks.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Banned Books Week in the Time of Repression

This year's Banned Books Week (Oct. 5-11) comes at a moment when the threat of censorship is reaching alarming heights. According to a new report issued last week by PEN America, " Banned in the USA, 2024-2025," there were 22,810 instances of book banning in U.S. public schools from 2021 to 2025. As the coordinator of Chicago Banned Books Week, I can see a growing climate of fear where even some librarians are wary of promoting banned books.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Tapping Alumni to Be Career Mentors for Students

For students at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, alumni mentors are becoming embedded in their experience. A recently launched mentorship program pairs each rising junior with a graduate from the college to provide advice and encouragement as they finish their last two years of college. The initiative, part of Gettysburg's reimagining of career development, helps students build a professional network before they leave college and hopefully eases the transition into life after graduation, said Billy Ferrell, director of external relations in Gettysburg's Center for Career Engagement.
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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

A Conservative Professor on How to Fix Campus Culture

Robert P. George argues campuses have become leftist hotbeds that stifle debate and urges cross-ideological engagement to restore civil, functioning discourse.
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fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Bay Area universities spend millions on lobbyists in search of favor, funding

Bay Area universities significantly increased federal lobbying expenditures in early 2025 to oppose proposed higher-education policy changes and protect research funding and campus programs.
#college-rankings
US politics
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Trump Pushes Universities to Sign "Loyalty Oaths" for Federal Funds, Critics Say

President Trump pushed top universities to sign a compact banning identity factors in admissions to gain priority access to federal research funding.
Higher education
fromHigh Country News
2 weeks ago

How tribal educators are navigating budget challenges - High Country News

Proposed federal funding cuts threatened tribal colleges' survival; a one-time $495 million allocation would double TCU funding but would come from cuts to other programs.
Higher education
fromCornell Chronicle
2 weeks ago

Provost initiative to envision Cornell's long-term future | Cornell Chronicle

Faculty-led committee will envision Cornell's long-term future amid challenges to higher education, addressing undergraduate and graduate education, public trust, funding, and technological change.
Education
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Should We Let AI Think for Us?

Relying on ChatGPT to brainstorm erodes students' critical thinking, creativity, and the essential cognitive practice of idea generation.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Starmer's further education plans augur well, but the policy detail will be telling

Keir Starmer has joined a long line of ministers and prime ministers who have called time on Tony Blair's ambition for half of the nation's young people to go on to higher education. Rishi Sunak, Gavin Williamson and now Starmer have all declared an end to Blair's famous 1999 pledge as a policy priority, and done so on the grounds that the focus on universities has come at the expense of vocational education and training such as apprenticeships.
UK politics
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Texas Ban on Transgender Course Content Sows Chaos

Officials at San Jacinto College, a community college in greater Houston, asked faculty to review student learning outcomes for their courses and ensure they adhere to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Academic Course Guide Manual and Workforce Education Course Manual, said Amanda Fenwick, a spokesperson for the college.
LGBT
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 weeks ago

Trump May Attempt to Tie Grant Allocation to Capitulation

The Trump administration may be moving away from using individual investigations to try to force colleges into compliance with the president's agenda and instead encourage compliance by giving institutions that demonstrate adherence to his policies a competitive advantage in obtaining research funding. The new plan, which Post reporters heard about from two anonymous White House officials, would change the grant-application process and give a leg up to institutions that conform to President Donald Trump's agenda regarding admissions, hiring and other campus policies. If the plan takes effect, the Trump administration will no longer have to go after universities one by one through investigations and corresponding penalties, but rather can induce compliance from hundreds of institutions at once.
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