FY26 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Propose Difficult Budget Cuts for NSF, NIST, and NASA
Dec 4, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 House Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.
Higher Ed News
Assessment after Artificial Intelligence: The Research We Should Be Doing
Dec 3, 2025 - This paper presents the outcomes of that collaboration, a set of guiding principles and framing questions that together offer a structure for guiding and supporting the research we should be doing on assessment after AI.
College completion rate holds steady above 61%
Dec 4, 2025 - Earning college credit in high school made students more likely to graduate within six years, per the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Alliance for Data Science Professionals launches University Accreditation
Nov 26, 2025 - The Alliance for Data Science Professionals are pleased to announce the launch of its new University Accreditation scheme, following a successful early adopter phase with the Open University and the University of East London.
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
Dec 2, 2025 - A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
One-U RAI Welcomes 12 New Faculty Fellows Driving Responsible AI Across Disciplines - One-U Responsible AI Initiative
Dec 1, 2025 - This expansion underscores the university’s commitment to rapidly advancing ethical, interdisciplinary AI research that addresses real-world challenges, from expediting emergency medical care to protecting the West’s water supply to systematically embedding ethics in AI education.
Here’s what to know about Calvin University’s 12.5% faculty reduction, program cuts
Dec 2, 2025 - The cuts were described in a letter as honoring Calvin’s “distinctive mission” and ensuring long-term sustainability.
Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching
Dec 1, 2025 - Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.
White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI
Dec 1, 2025 - This new effort is described as a “whole-of-government approach” creating, “a national discovery platform that unites the world’s most powerful supercomputers, AI systems, and emerging quantum technologies with the nation’s most advanced scientific instruments.”
Human tests for machine models: What lies “Beyond the Imitation Game”?
Nov 24, 2025 - What is missing in the debate about benchmarking LLMs is a socially grounded theory of language and a linguistically grounded theory of cognition that understands (1) language as culture and (2) communication as situated and joint cognitive achievement between interactants.
University of Lynchburg offers faculty buyouts to address finances
Dec 1, 2025 - An administrator says no programs will be cut, and there's not a target figure for how faculty accept the offer.
Colleges risk getting it backwards on AI and they may be hurting Gen Z job searchers
Dec 1, 2025 - Imagine if colleges had demanded that students rely exclusively on physical libraries and banned the use of Google Search?
What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?
Dec 1, 2025 - The Illinois institution agreed to pay the federal government $75 million over three years and make key policy changes to have research funding restored.
University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M
Dec 1, 2025 - Revenue growth outpaced cost increases as the private nonprofit aims for a balanced budget by the decade’s end.
Chinese students fueled graduate program growth in US, study finds
Dec 1, 2025 - American colleges benefited economically from an influx of Chinese students coming to the country to pursue master’s degrees, a working paper found.
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Dec 1, 2025 - Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa | New Fall 2025 Faculty in the Computer Science Department
Nov 30, 2025 - Announcing six new faculty members.
The geopolitics of AI: What are the repercussions for higher
Nov 25, 2025 - And as the humanities, the very disciplines we once relied on for reflective, interpretive, and narrative accounts of the world, are displaced by AI systems, we risk losing the key institutional spaces capable of interrogating the power/knowledge logics those systems reinforce.
Infographic: How Accurate Are AI Chatbots?
Nov 28, 2025 - This chart shows the share of answers from the following AI assistants (free versions) that contain significant/minor inacurracy (in Dec. '24 vs. May-Jun. '25)
Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect
Nov 28, 2025 - Watch groups are on the alert for anything out of the ordinary in the official US government data.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Nov 27, 2025 - Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Nov 26, 2025 - Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data
Nov 17, 2025 - The Center for Open Science (COS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
Penn State ICDS 2025 AI cluster hire
Nov 28, 2025 - Penn State University is aiming to hire multiple Tenure-track or Tenured faculty as part of an ambitious multi-year cluster hire in AI across multiple university campuses, to help realize the university’s goals of transformative integration of AI across research and graduate and undergraduate curricula across all disciplines.
Advancing Public Interest Technology in Computing: New Insights for the Community
Nov 24, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA) and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) convened 3 national roundtables and summarized the key insights that emerged.
Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?
Nov 26, 2025 - National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government’s AI platform. But who stands to benefit?
This AI combo could unlock human-level intelligence
Nov 25, 2025 - Blending ‘old-fashioned’ logic systems with the neural networks that power large language models is one of the hottest trends in artificial intelligence.
Accelerating science with AI
Nov 25, 2025 - This discussion should center on two parallel efforts—creating the integrated infrastructure, from data and algorithms to hardware and agentic control, needed to apply AI to speed up research; and determining the policies and resources that empower scientists to fuel the feedback loop of scientific advancement and AI innovation.
Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?
Nov 25, 2025 - How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future
Notre Dame | Conference rcordings from the RISE AI Conference
Nov 25, 2025 - Explore the conference recordings and event highlights gallery, now available on the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society website