Teaching Gandhi in a Texas Detention Center
Apr. 23, 2025 - A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk
Higher Ed News
Cal opens $110M engineering center, plans to auction off West Berkeley admin building
Apr. 25, 2025 - UC Berkeley opened the Grimes Engineering Center, a $110 million project that is a 35,500-square-foot expansion of the former Bechtel Engineering Center.
Big Ten faculties ask their administrations to sign a joint defense pact against Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - The potential pact would mark an escalation in resistance from universities to President Trump's push for them to follow his agenda.
How the Harvard Undergraduate Association Spends Half a Million Dollars a Year
Apr. 25, 2025 - More than 400 student clubs apply for funding from the HUA at the start of each semester, and the HUA divides around half a million dollars, among them.
Northwestern to receive over $220 million from foreign contracts, gifts made since 2020
Apr. 25, 2025 - Contributions have been made since 2020 amid deepening woes over the Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign funding at universities.
Three Penn affiliates’ visas reinstated amid federal policy reversal
Apr. 25, 2025 - The reactivations come as the Trump administration walked back its cancellation of over 1,500 student visas nationwide on April 25.
1,433 students sign letter urging Yale to publicly resist Trump
Apr. 25, 2025 - Co-authored with the YCC and GSA, the letter calls on the University to defend academic freedom, institutional autonomy and the safety of students.
New Yale “America at 250” class tops fall 2025 enrollment, economics courses remain high in demand
Apr. 25, 2025 - Early enrollment numbers for the upcoming fall semester showed “America at 250” and “Intermediate Macroeconomics” taking the top spots.
Research Funding at Brown
Apr. 25, 2025 - The Herald’s data desk dove into federal and institutional data to understand how research is funded at Brown.
Novel course at Yale translates data from the natural world into art
Apr. 24, 2025 - In a new course, Yale students are using AI technologies to transform natural phenomena into artistic performances.
Three weeks after Trump cut Princeton’s funding, no demands have been publicly issued. Here’s what we know.
Apr. 25, 2025 - Princeton has still yet to receive any demands, yet the $210 million in federal funding paused on April 1 remains frozen.
Harvard Management Company Plans $1 Billion Sale of Private Equity Stakes
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard Management Company is planning to sell nearly $1 billion of private equity fund stakes, liquidating nearly 5 percent of its private equity portfolio amid mounting threats to the University’s finances by its critics in Washington.
BC’s Most Popular Majors and Minors: Finance Retains the Top Spot
Apr. 25, 2025 - For the third consecutive year, finance is the most popular major at Boston College.
When it comes to reading the room, humans are still better than AI
Apr. 24, 2025 - Hopkins research shows AI models fall short in predicting social interactions, a skill critical for systems to navigate the real world.
NSF, DOE funding changes impact Case Western Reserve University
Apr. 25, 2025 - President Eric Kaler sent a campus-wide email updating the Case Western Reserve University community on federal research funding and its effect on CWRU research operations.
Five research grants at Pitt are canceled, the highest number in Pennsylvania
Apr. 25, 2025 - The National Science Foundation has canceled 17 grants worth $7.3 million to Pennsylvania institutions of higher education.
The Guardian view on Trump v universities: essential institutions must defend themselves
Apr. 25, 2025 - Editorial: Harvard is leading the pushback because it can afford to fight. Others are realising that they can’t afford not to
A blandly titled law from 1946 may play a key role in Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump administration
Apr. 25, 2025 - Harvard claims Trump’s executive branch isn’t following federal rules for changing key government policies.
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Apr. 25, 2025 - DOJ announced the reversal in federal court after weeks of intense scrutiny by courts and dozens of restraining orders issued by judges.
Women Still Underrepresented in STEM Despite Job Demand
Apr. 23, 2025 - More than one million American women were working in STEM occupations in 2023, only representing 26 percent of the STEM workforce.
Oregon Teams With Nvidia for $10M AI Program on College Campuses
Apr. 24, 2025 - Money from the Oregon CHIPS Act, a package of legislation from 2023, will help Oregon colleges and universities hire artificial intelligence faculty and technical experts.
University of Michigan, Google Launch Agentic AI for TAs
Apr. 23, 2025 - The university's pilot program, which will use virtual teaching assistants to explain course concepts to students and guide them through problems, will contribute to a study on virtual TAs working across 26 campuses.
CRA | NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Resigns
Apr. 24, 2025 - According to Science, the President’s budget request for NSF is likely to entail, “a 55% cut to the agency’s $9 billion budget next year and fire half its 1,700-person staff.” This news had not previously been reported.
NSF Statement by Director Sethuraman Panchanathan on his departure
Apr. 24, 2025 - ... "I believe I have done all I can to advance the critical mission of the agency and feel that it is time for me to pass the baton to new leadership." ...
Dartmouth only Ivy to abstain from signing letter against Trump administration funding cuts
Apr. 23, 2025 - A College spokesperson said that the President “does not believe that signing open form letters like this one is an effective way to defend Dartmouth’s mission.”
A Nature analysis signals the beginnings of a US science brain drain
Apr. 22, 2025 - Data from the Nature show that US scientists submitted 32% more applications for jobs abroad between January and March 2025 than during the same period in 2024.
‘The gatekeepers’: Trump’s action on accreditation sparks concerns over government intrusion
Apr. 24, 2025 - The president signed a directive seeking to punish accreditors for diversity criteria while easing the path for new quality-assurance bodies.
Federal judges deal major blow to Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance
Apr. 24, 2025 - The agency didn’t follow the proper procedures when it issued sweeping guidance threatening federal funding in February, one court ruled.
Federal judges deal major blow to Education Department’s anti-DEI guidance
Apr. 24, 2025 - The Trump administration's efforts to withhold funds from schools "raise the specter of a public 'witch hunt,'" one ruling said.
Trump targets AI, school discipline in new executive orders
Apr. 23, 2025 - In addition to advancing AI in schools, the orders call for a review of discipline guidance based on “discriminatory and unlawful ‘equity’ ideology.”