‘Constantly on defense’: Brown Professors discuss data preservation, integrity under Trump
Apr. 7, 2025 - Five professors across many disciplines spoke at the “Data in the Trump/DOGE Era” panel.
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The California State University Weekly Updates
Apr. 9, 2025 - As of April 9, 2025, a total of 40 CSU students have been impacted by visa revocations since the start of the year.
Mississippi libraries ordered to delete academic research in response to state laws
Apr. 8, 2025 - The two research collections state officials ordered for deletion included material from professional journals, conference papers, books, student dissertations, periodicals and newspaper articles.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Federal research funding fuels innovation, economic growth
Apr. 9, 2025 - Federal grants awarded to University of Michigan researchers help to drive innovation and economic growth, supporting thousands of jobs and generating millions in research-related spending across the United States.
Several Penn State international students have visas revoked
Apr. 7, 2025 - Several Penn State international students have visas revoked, according to a letter sent out by Interim Vice Provost of Penn State Global Sabine Klahr.
Could LLMs help design our next medicines and materials?
Apr. 9, 2025 - A new multimodal tool combines a LLM with powerful graph-based AI models to efficiently find new, synthesizable molecules with desired properties, based on a user’s queries in plain language.
Trump administration terminates six UNC-CH international student visas
Apr. 9, 2025 - “ISSS is available to advise, answer questions and provide resources to all university-sponsored international students and scholars,” Media Relations wrote.
UW Information School ties for 1st in US News & World Report Best Graduate Schools ranking
Apr. 7, 2025 - The University of Washington’s graduate and professional degree programs were widely recognized as among the best in the nation.
Department of Commerce announces the end of $4 million in funding of climate risk projects at Princeton
Apr. 9, 2025 - The Department of Commerce cut $4 million to Princeton for three climate-related projects, which it said were actively working against Trump administration objectives.
Northwestern faculty navigate attacks on speech, research
Apr. 9, 2025 - Northwestern faculty are grappling with the federal government’s challenges to academic freedom and free speech.
Wharton professor cited in Accenture report on organizational structures in age of generative AI
Apr. 9, 2025 - The report introduced AI as representing a "fundamentally different way of working" and drew on the company's "firsthand" experience with AI reinvention to explore questions of how organizations adapt workflows, prepare workers, and create new approaches to organization design.
Resolution to Establish a Mutual Defense Compact for the Universities of the Big Ten Academic Alliance in Defense of Academic Freedom, Institutional Integrity, and the Research Enterprise - Rutgers University Senate
Apr. 9, 2025 - The Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance
Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
Apr. 8, 2025 - 80-plus colleges and universities have identified over 300 international students and recent graduates who have had their legal status changed by the State Department.
BREAKING: Visas revoked for three from MIT
Apr. 8, 2025 - On April 7 at 6:56 p.m., international students at MIT received an email stating that the visas of three members of the MIT community had been revoked.
Brown University president speaks about Trump funding freeze at faculty town hall
Apr. 9, 2025 - Faculty, alums and students are calling on Brown to resist any demands the Trump administration makes on funding.
White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown
Apr. 8, 2025 - Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for ‘failure to protect Jewish students’
Michigan State University and Apple to jointly open manufacturing academy
Apr. 8, 2025 - The program is part of the iPhone maker’s $10 billion commitment to building advanced manufacturing and skills development nationwide.
Florida House proposal could cut college grants for 22,000 students
Apr. 7, 2025 - Under the chamber’s proposed FY26 budget, 15 private colleges would lose eligibility for a popular grant program, one association said.
Judge permanently blocks NIH’s plan to cap funding, setting up appeals battle
Apr. 8, 2025 - Universities are waiting cautiously as the agency's unilateral plan to cut billions of research support dollars has already created widespread disruption.
Johns Hopkins graduate programs ranked among nation's best
Apr. 8, 2025 - 'U.S. News & World Report' includes 37 JHU programs among the top 10 in the U.S. in its annual rankings, including No. 1- ranked programs in biomedical engineering, nursing, and public health.
Duke’s surge in applications and drop in admission rates, by the numbers
Apr. 8, 2025 - The Chronicle reviewed Duke’s admission announcements since 2000 to trace the steep climb in applications and steady decline in acceptance rates over the years.
Princeton Faculty vote to remove references to affirmative action from procedures, non-discrimination statement
Apr. 7, 2025 - Faculty members voted to approve a proposal to remove references to affirmative action and other suggestions of race-based preferential treatment from the University’s Non-Discrimination Statement and the Rules and Procedures of the Faculty.
UW–Madison graduate programs ranked highly by U.S. News
Apr. 8, 2025 - The School of Education was ranked first in the nation for the second year in a row, and a wide variety of other fields were also ranked highly.
13 UW-Madison visas terminated by U.S. government, Mnookin says it’s not tied to ‘protest activity’
Apr. 7, 2025 - The U.S. government terminated six current University of Wisconsin-Madison student visas and seven alumni with visa employment extensions, the university announced Monday.
Visa records of six UW students, seven alumni terminated by federal authorities
Apr. 7, 2025 - The University of Wisconsin said the records of six current students and seven alumni on employment extensions have been terminated by the U.S. government.
Two Yale international students stripped of their visas
Apr. 8, 2025 - Yale’s Office of International Students and Scholars confirmed to the News that the visas of two international students have been revoked.
“Universities Are the Invisible Hand.”
Apr. 7, 2025 - The leaders of the National Academy of Sciences and Arizona State University offer their thoughts on the challenges facing the scientific enterprise and how science institutions should respond.
UC Berkeley | A message about recent federal visa program updates
Apr. 7, 2025 - How UC Berkeley is supporting community members after recent visa revocations by the federal government.
UNLV says four international students had visas revoked
Apr. 7, 2025 - UNLV is not identifying the students affected, Officer in Charge and Provost Chris Heavey said in an email.
Columbia International students in US have visas revoked in gov't crackdown
Apr. 7, 2025 - Columbia said that it had learned that four current international students had their visas revoked during a review of the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database.