Elon University and Queens University of Charlotte announce intent to merge
Sep 17, 2025 - The private North Carolina institutions said the combination would help meet the educational and workforce needs of Charlotte, the state's biggest city.
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Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs
Sep 17, 2025 - UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.
Maryville College plans new $80M science center focused on Southern Appalachia
Sep 15, 2025 - Maryville College is planning to build a new 65,000-square-foot science center on campus.
Connecticut Professors Fear Dependence, Cognitive Decline Over AI Use
Sep 15, 2025 - Professors at Central Connecticut State University worry that reliance on artificial intelligence tools is already changing student behavior — less thinking abstractly, less engagement and potential cognitive decline.
Anthropic Taps Higher Education Leaders for Guidance on AI
Sep 16, 2025 - The AI company Anthropic has convened two former university presidents, three campus technology leaders and the president of an education nonprofit for an advisory group to inform the company's education-focused tools.
'Mixed blessing' | Record enrollment at University of Arkansas pressures city's housing demand
Sep 16, 2025 - "They help drive the local culture and local economy, and at the same time, they drive and fuel demand for housing," City Council member Mike Wiederkehr said.
Adult learners need more than tweaks, and here’s how some colleges are stepping up
Sep 16, 2025 - Colleges eager to help adult learners—especially Black, Hispanic and Latino, and Native American adults who have historically been left behind—know this goal requires more than surface-level tweaks. It demands deep, sustained, and mission-driven institutional change.
UW-Madison RISE AI Collaboration HQ to build connections and advance research, teaching and engagement
Sep 16, 2025 - The group will catalyze research communities centered on innovative focus areas and build connections among UW–Madison’s AI community, which includes the more than 35 new RISE-AI hires and current faculty, staff and students.
US faces shortfall of 5.3M college-educated workers by 2032
Sep 16, 2025 - Nursing, teaching and engineering would experience the largest gaps, per a study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce.
UNebraska-Lincoln proposing to eliminate six academic programs
Sp 12, 2025 - Six academic programs would be discontinued: community and regional planning, earth and atmospheric sciences, educational administration, landscape architecture, statistics, and textile, merchandising and fashion design.
Establishing and implementing a responsible artificial intelligence framework: a 1-year review
Sep 13, 2025 - This work highlights successes and challenges of implementing a novel responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) framework for UNC Health
NC State Data Science and AI Academy | Leaving a Legacy of Philanthropy
Aug 11, 2025 - NC State’s Data Science and AI Academy has secured its first legacy endowment.
Carnegie Mellon University to Build $10M AI Lab
Sep 12, 2025 - Funded in partnership with the Bank of New York Mellon, the BNY AI Lab will support faculty-led research and comprehensive multi-disciplinary projects as well as mentoring and internship opportunities for students.
Purdue's Industrial Roundtable 2025
Sep 11, 2025 - Industrial Roundtable 2025 wrapped up on Wednesday with more than 400 companies and 16,000 students in attendance.
UTSA Postdoctoral fellow helps community health workers make sense of data using generative AI
Sep 12, 2025 - UT San Antonio fellow is providing specialized training that empowers community health organizations to make better use of their data.
U-M Ann Arbor | $19.4M for an ‘AI oracle’ to solve complex physics problems
Sep 11, 2025 - How much faster could engineering progress with an artificial intelligence oracle that could answer any physics question?
UC Berkeley researchers use Reddit to study AI’s moral judgements
Sep 10, 2025 - A study published by UC Berkeley researchers used the Reddit forum, r/AmITheAsshole, to determine whether artificial intelligence, or AI, chatbots had “patterns in their moral reasoning.”
Brown awarded $20 million to lead artificial intelligence research institute aimed at mental health support
Sep 11, 2025 - The grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation, is part of a White House’s AI Action Plan.
Black, Hispanic student enrollment rises increases at Brown University
Sep 11, 2025 - The class of 2028 saw a significant drop in enrollment of Black and Hispanic students, a trend which appears to be reversing this year.
‘It is a shakedown’: Columbia, Penn, Brown settle with government as peer Ivy League institutions remain in crosshairs
Sep 11, 2025 - In the first eight months of Donald Trump’s second term, his administration has escalated federal scrutiny on dozens of universities across the country, including the eight institutions that make up the Ivy League.
AI-generated medical data can sidestep usual ethics review, universities say
Sep 10, 2025 - Representatives of four medical research centres have told Nature they have waived normal ethical review because 'synthetic' data do not contain real or traceable patient information.
U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says
Sep 10, 2025 - The Trump administration wants to capture potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in future upside from the work of scientists.
Education Department cancels $350M in grants for minority-serving institutions
Sep 11, 2025 - U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon on Wednesday decried the funding as promoting "government-mandated racial quotas."
Federal judge declines to restore $1B in grants cut by NSF
Sep 11, 2025 - The lawsuit over the agency’s mass grant terminations will proceed, but plaintiffs will have to seek monetary relief in another court.
National Research Platform to Democratize AI Computing for Higher Ed
Sep 11, 2025 - By pooling GPUs and cloud resources across institutions, the NRP lets students and faculty run advanced AI workloads without the high costs of individual infrastructure and maintenance.
Cancer research at the University of Utah should get much faster under new $50M A.I. partnership
Sep 10, 2025 - The University of Utah wants to put another $50 million toward artificial intelligence to speed up cancer research and get possible cures to patients sooner.
UNC-CH | Percent of Black students enrolled in fall 2025 remains low two years after affirmative action repeal
Sep 9, 2025 - While Black student enrollment has stayed stagnant since last year, the number of Hispanic, Latino or Latina-identifying students has increased from 2023 — the year affirmative action was repealed.
Infographic: Which Fields of Study Are (Not) Leading to Jobs?
Sep 10, 2025 - This chart shows the share of tertiary-educated adults who were unemployed in selected OECD countries, by field of study.
UUtah’s Responsible AI Community Consortium Unveils AI Leadership Blueprint
Sep 8, 2025 - The AI Leadership Blueprint is a practical, step-by-step guide developed specifically for organizations to adopt and manage AI responsibly.
MIT president warns of 'significant new financial pressures'
Sep 10, 2025 - MIT is experiencing significant financial challenges following President Trump's cuts to federal research funding.