DOGE said it cut $881 million at the Education Department. The real savings are much less.
Feb. 26, 2025 - A new analysis shows it doesn't account for roughly $400 million that was effectively wasted – not saved – by the DOGE team.
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Penn State will close some campuses amid enrollment decline, president says
Feb. 26, 2025 - Those locations account for 75% of Penn State’s commonwealth enrollment and 67% of faculty and staff, Bendapudi said.
In-state college tuition rates have been frozen in SC for 5 years. That may change
Feb. 21, 2025 - “We want to give (colleges) some sort of flexibility, because it’s a broken model,” said state Rep. Nathan Ballentine, R-Richland.
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Feb. 26, 2025 - The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.
McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs | CBC News
Feb. 10, 2025 - McGill University says it needs to cut $45 million from its 2025-26 budget to eliminate operating deficits over the next three years.
Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions
Feb. 26, 2025 - A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.
‘Journalism Is Expensive’: Harvard Public Health Magazine Closes After Financial Struggles
Feb. 26, 2025 - More than a decade after its launch, the Harvard Public Health Magazine announced on Monday that the publication would shut down after struggling to turn a profit.
Texas Southern University Requests $6.6M for AI Initiative
Feb. 21, 2025 - The university is hoping to streamline administrative operations, improve AI literacy and enhance recruitment efforts. It has also requested millions more from the legislature for other tech-related initiatives.
Old Dominion University Launches Enterprise Chatbot
Feb. 24, 2025 - Specifically designed for faculty, MonarchMind gives users access to ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama on a secure, university-run system that does not share chat data with outside parties or use it to train AI models.
Survey: Higher Ed AI Adoption Faces Financial, Policy Hurdles
Feb. 25, 2025 - A new EDUCAUSE study reveals that while AI is becoming a strategic priority in higher education, cost and policy development, especially at small schools, still hinders widespread implementation.
Unions protest Sonoma State’s planned cuts to faculty and programs amid $23.9M deficit - Local News Matters
Feb. 24, 2025 - The California Faculty Association, students and other unions have held rally at Sonoma State University ahead of last week’s on-campus legislative forum.
Why the University of Texas System is offering microcredentials to students — for free
Feb. 26, 2025 - The public network is providing access to Coursera’s Career Academy, which includes professional certificates from companies like Microsoft and Google.
University of Missouri announces cuts, full impact not yet known
Feb. 24, 2025 - The MU president warned university system faces challenges and cuts to federal programs in the near future and will need to take steps to address those issues.
UC Irvine | Workshop Brings Together SoCal Leaders in Causal Reasoning
Feb. 24, 2025 - Around 80 researchers gathered at UC Irvine for the SoCal Workshop on Causal Reasoning.
UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Six papers by CSE researchers at SIGCSE TS 2025
Feb. 25, 2025 - Six papers authored by researchers affiliated with CSE are being presented at the 2025 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS).
Penn State University | Making machine learning models more fair focus of Tan lab
Feb. 20, 2025 - Professor Tan is helping researchers customize fair models by mitigating biases in existing machine learning models in open-source libraries such as Tensorflow or Scikit-Learn.
The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring
Jan. 29, 2025 - The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.
Edinburgh warns of ‘radical’ action under £140m of cuts
Feb. 25, 2025 - The University is expecting to shed staff and curb capital spending in a bid to save £140 milllion over the next 18 months
DOGE blocked from accessing Education Department’s sensitive student data until March 10
Feb. 24, 2025 - A judge said the Trump administration failed to explain why the Department of Government Efficiency needed “sweeping access” to the agency’s records.
Canceled meetings and confusion: NIH grant funding in limbo despite court injunction | WBUR News
Feb. 24, 2025 - Researchers awaiting NIH funding say their grant meetings are being canceled, despite a court order blocking the Trump administration from freezing federal funds.
Northwestern Libraries’ website removes DEI mention as University responds to executive orders
Feb. 23, 2025 - Northwestern Libraries removed the mention of diversity on its website, following President Donald Trump’s executive orders against DEI initiatives.
Senate alleges $4.9 million in Vanderbilt and VUMC NSF-funded research as promoting ‘far-left ideology’
Feb. 24, 2025 - U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) flagged 3,483 NSF grants, including 15 awarded to Vanderbilt.
Penn schools scrubbed their DEI websites. Here’s what’s left.
Feb. 24, 2025 - Four undergraduate and 12 graduate schools have scrubbed references to diversity, equity, and inclusion from their respective webpages over the past two weeks.
Officials tack on additional leadership review for hiring, promotions to preserve GW’s ‘limited’ resources
Feb. 24, 2025 - Officials will add another step to the approval process for faculty and staff hiring and promotions to protect GW’s “limited” resources.
PhD admission decrease won’t affect research goals, University says
Jan. 28, 2025 - PhD budget growth is set to be reduced from 6% to 4% through reduced admissions targets.
Social Security Slashes Cooperative Agreements
Feb. 21, 2025 - The Social Security Administration today announced the termination of their Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) cooperative agreements.
‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat | Penn Today
Feb. 20, 2025 - The Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant.
UC San Diego | SDSC Leads Effort to Enhance National Research Data Management Ecosystem Infrastructure
Feb. 21, 2025 - Following international standards, the system provides a transparent and reliable way to centralize and preserve vital project information—even after a project ends.
University joins Empire AI Consortium to advance research and collaboration
Feb. 21, 2025 - The University of Rochester is joining other public and private research institutions in New York State in the Empire AI Consortium, as announced by New York State Governor Kathy Hochul.
U.S. Department of Education Cancels Divisive and Wasteful Grants under the Comprehensive Centers Program
Feb. 19, 2025 - The U.S. Department of Education cancelled 18 grants totaling $226 million that were awarded under the Comprehensive Centers Program.