Staff Council presses GW for more communication on new promotion, hiring review process
Mar. 3, 2025 - The Staff Council sought clarity on the University’s new promotion and hiring approval process.
Higher Ed News
‘Heartbreaking’: Penn community expresses uncertainty, concern after graduate admissions cuts
Mar. 3, 2025 - The Daily Pennsylvanian spoke with several Penn students and faculty members about the future of higher education following cuts to graduate admissions rates.
UC Irvine | Preventing Bad Experiences with Digital Goods
Feb. 28, 2025 - UC Irvine Giovanna Mancinelli is driven by the psychology behind digital products and the audiences interacting with them.
Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records
Feb. 2025 - The returns average 0.159 but vary widely across fields, with a standard deviation of 0.176. Earnings effects are higher for women, lower for part time students, and depend on undergraduate major.
POLITICO Pro: New Jersey colleges now face a state funding squeeze amid federal cuts
Feb. 28, 2025 - Gov. Murphy's budget eyes cutting $184 million in funding to higher education.
Arizona bill to cut off state funding over college DEI courses gains traction
Feb. 28, 2025 - If signed into law, faculty at the state's public colleges would not be able to teach about subjects like antiracism and unconscious bias.
1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session | OpenAI
Feb. 28, 2025 - OpenAI and nine national labs bring together leading scientists for first-of-its kind event.
UC San Diego Team Uncovers Mystery of Water's Hidden Dual Phases
Feb. 26, 2025 - A study using SDSC's Expanse has produced compelling evidence that at supercooled temperatures and high pressures, water can exist in two distinct liquid states, each with its own unique structure and density.
UToronto DSI | Bridging The Gap: CrossTALK Bootcamp Unites Computational And Experimental Scientists For Drug Discovery
Feb. 20, 2025 - the Structural Genomics Consortium's launched CrossTALK Bootcamp; a training program designed to bring together computational scientists and experimental researchers in a unique setting.
Advancing reticular chemistry with large language models
Feb. 24, 2025 - UC Berkeley researchers in chemistry and computer science recently reported on their use of a LLM to advance discovery in reticular chemistry and materials science.
UVA SDS | FAIR Symposium Tackles Online Toxicity, AI in Recruiting
Feb. 28, 2025 - The 2025 FAIR Symposium featured Mona Sloane and Tom Hartvigsen presenting recent research on their respective topics of AI in recruiting and online toxicity.
Vanderbilt Data Science Institute Unveils “Deep Research Assist” Program to Academic Research
Feb. 26, 2025 - Deep Research Assist is a new initiative that will help faculty approach research development and grant writing across the university.
Ohio bathroom law targeting transgender students has brought internal strife to some campuses
Feb. 23, 2025 - An Ohio law designating school bathrooms for use by people based on their sex at birth kicks in soon.
A surge of DEI cuts hits colleges across the US
Feb. 27, 2025 - Some colleges, like Ohio State University, are reversing their stances on diversity efforts as federal and state policymakers ratchet up the pressure.
Grad School Is in Trouble
Feb. 27, 2025 - The latest signal that the future of the university is under threat
McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs
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.
Wisconsin appeals court shuts down state-funded college grant program for minority students
Feb. 26, 2025 - The Wisconsin appeals court struck down a state grant program intended to give certain minority students a financial boost after admission.
Opinion | Two-Thirds of Colleges Show Signs of Financial Stress. How Does Yours Stack Up?
Feb. 28, 2025 - For many, higher ed’s budget crunch is hitting close to home.
Case Western Reserve University limits hiring, other spending amid federal funding concerns
Feb. 26, 2025 - The university has implemented a “temporary pauses” on hiring for staff positions, new additional pay and temporary staffing requests, unrestricted discretionary spending and travel requests.
University of Northern Colorado Pauses Hiring Efforts
Feb. 11, 2025 - President Andy Feinstein announced the University of Northern Colorado is pausing all hiring efforts for new and vacant positions on January 24.
Cornell freezes hiring, asks department heads to cut costs amid "financial uncertainty" - The Ithaca Voice
Feb. 27, 2028 - Cornell University has initiated a four-month hiring freeze in all college, school and administrative units.
BU | Crovella and Wildman Named Inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows in CDS
Feb. 28, 2025 - Boston University’s Mark Crovella and Wesley J. Wildman have been named the inaugural Duan Family Faculty Fellows (DFF) in BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences.
NJIT | An AI Class That is Exclusive and Needed Now More Than Ever
Feb. 24, 2025 - Andrew Sohn's course, CS 485: Intro to GPU Cluster Programming, is like no other in the U.S.
Hiring freeze for non-essential positions | MIT
Feb. 14, 2025 - MIT is taking the step of instituting a general hiring freeze on all nonessential positions, effective immediately and until further notice. Faculty positions will not be impacted by this freeze.
Cornell 2025 Hiring Pause
Feb. 27, 2025 - Effective immediately, the university is implementing a position control process for all hiring.
Graduate chairs express concerns over admissions cuts in letter to Penn SAS admin
Feb. 27, 2025 - The letter expressed concerns about the negative effects of reducing graduate program class sizes, and argued that the cuts may inflict
Penn to raise tuition by 3.7% for 2025-26 academic year, expand financial aid
Feb. 27, 2025 - At a University Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, administrators announced that tuition will increase from $60,920 to $63,204 next academic year.
Michigan AI Job Postings Prompt 4 New Degrees at GVSU
Feb. 27, 2025 - Grand Valley State University is expanding its College of Computing with new programs and concentrations.
Texas A&M University to Buy $45M Supercomputer
Feb. 27, 2025 - The Texas A&M University System has an agreement to purchase an AI supercomputer to support research in AI, graphics rendering and scientific simulations.
US universities curtail PhD admissions amid Trump science funding cuts
Feb. 27, 2025 - Nature talks to prospective students left in limbo as some institutes withdraw offers and put applications on hold.