Current Term Enrollment Estimates Spring 2025
May 22, 2025 - Total postsecondary enrollment is up 3.2 percent this spring (+562,000), compared to spring 2024.
Higher Ed News
Cornell Is Selling Its President’s House Amid Federal Funding Freezes
May 19, 2025 - The Ivy League university is selling property as the Trump administration freezes more than $1 billion in federal funding.
Liberal arts programs at two Utah universities take the brunt of cuts
May 19, 2025 - Utah Tech and Southern Utah University have both released their plans to comply with the state-imposed budget cuts
Maryland regents allow furloughs and salary cuts for public universities
May 20, 2025 - The state’s higher education system is facing big funding shortfalls at both the state and federal levels.
Over half of hiring managers say recent grads are unprepared for the workforce
May 19, 2025 - “Colleges don’t teach students how to behave in the workplace,” Resume.org’s career coach said in a statement.
Michigan State University plans 9% general spending cut, totaling $153M in reductions
May 15, 2025 - Top university officials outlined a two-year plan to reduce its general fund spending in response to ongoing federal budget cuts.
Harvard University devotes $250M to sustain research hit by federal cuts
May 16, 2025 - The institution’s leaders said they have received multiple grant terminations since the Trump administration froze over $2.2 billion of its federal funding.
Education Department retracts CTE grants for Native American and Hawaiian students
May 15, 2025 - The agency said the nearly $21.6 million grant competitions do not “align with the objectives established by the Trump Administration.”
Penn State University proposes closing 7 commonwealth campuses
May 14, 2025 - University officials cited enrollment declines at the colleges, as well as their financial deficits and maintenance backlogs.
University of Maryland, Baltimore to lay off employees amid federal budget reductions
May 13, 2025 - The University of Maryland, Baltimore will lay off 30 full-time staff and eliminate 30 vacant positions due to federal funding cuts.
Denver Public Schools gets the OK to award associate degrees
May 13, 2025 - Set to launch in 2026, programs offered through the district’s technical college would provide a higher credential for registered apprentices.
Trump administration nixes another $450M of Harvard University’s grants
May 13, 2025 - The federal government escalated attacks against the Ivy League institution, calling it a “breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination.”
NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions
May 8, 2025 - Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund
Trump’s NIH Axed Research Grants Even After a Judge Blocked the Cuts, Internal Records Show
May 7, 2025 - A lawsuit led by the Washington state attorney general offers an unprecedented view of the termination of more than 600 NIH grants.
To fill “education deserts,” some states want community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees
May 7, 2025 - To fill higher education deserts, several states are proposing letting community colleges offer bachelor’s degrees.
National Science Foundation faces lawsuit over 15% indirect research cap
May 7, 2025 - The legal challenge is at least the third levied against a federal agency in recent weeks for limiting reimbursement rates for colleges’ indirect costs.
Walking in two worlds: how an Indigenous computer scientist is using AI to preserve threatened languages
May 2, 2025 - Michael Running Wolf leads artificial-intelligence initiatives to revive lost languages and empower Indigenous people.
Education researchers sue Trump administration, testing executive power
May 5, 2025 - Prominent scholars ask the courts to reverse DOGE cuts at the Education Department.
Texas A&M TAMIDS | 2025 Data Science Course Development Awardees
May 5, 2025 - TAMIDS has announced six faculty awards that will support the creation of new courses and materials to expand AI, Data Science, and Machine Learning literacy at Texas A&M.
NJIT Students Shine at Bank of America Code-a-Thon with Innovative
May 5, 2025 - Four standout students were selected from NJIT’s top talent to represent the university.
BU Fall 2025 CDS Course Spotlight
May 5, 2025 - This course offering, DS 574 - Algorithmic Mechanism Design, focuses on algorithm mathematics and strategic investigations.
UCSD Expanse System at SDSC Helps Illustrate Way to Control Magnetism for Storage Solution
May 6, 2025 - Controlling magnetism at the atomic level using electric fields may be used to create ultra-efficient electronic devices that perform faster and use less energy.
UW eScience Institute | How Busy are National Parks and other Public Lands?
May 2, 2025 - The U.S. Department of the Interior partnered with expert researchers at the University of Washington’s Outdoor Recreation and Data Lab and the eScience Institute to inform its approach to improving outdoor recreation data as required by the law.
UPenn DDD Welcomes 2025 Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows
May 5, 2025 - These scholars bring together deep disciplinary knowledge paired with cutting-edge expertise in data science, and will contribute to a growing interdisciplinary community at Penn.
Researchers consider innovative, inclusive ways to develop and scale computational health
May 7, 2025 - Researchers from UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco convened a conference to share progress and challenges in connecting disparate healthcare data to improve clinical decision-making and patient outcomes.
UMD freshman enrollment dips by 4% since fall 2021 despite record admissions
May 6, 2025 - Fewer than 25 percent of admitted students enrolled at this university in each of the last four fall semesters.
Brown University, others sue National Science Foundation over cuts to research funding
May 6, 2025 - Brown received $34.4 million in federal funding from the NSF, according to court filings.
Columbia University cuts 180 staffers funded by federal grants revoked by Trump administration
May 6, 2025 - The Trump administration pulled $400 million in federal funding from the campus in March.
Trump administration to halt new research grants for Harvard as battle over political ideology and academic freedom flares
May 6, 2025 - The Trump administration has unveiled new steps to target federal funding to Harvard University, cutting off all new federal research grants unless the elite school enacts political policy changes amid a broader national clash over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight.
International students are rethinking coming to the U.S. That’s a problem for colleges
May 1, 2025 - Foreign-born students pay double or triple the tuition of domestic students — and are key to universities’ bottom line.