Here Is All the Science at Risk in Trump’s Clash With Harvard
Jun 22, 2025 - More than 900 research grants worth $2.6 billion are in jeopardy. So is the 80-year-old model of American science.
Higher Ed News
Duke | What do students think about AI? Takeaways from the Student Voices Panel at the Triangle AI Summit
Jun 20, 2025 - The Triangle AI Summit brought faculty, staff, and community members together to engage around the ethical, social, humanitarian, and environmental aspects of AI.
How many PhDs does the world need? Doctoral graduates vastly outnumber jobs in academia
Jun 22, 2025 - PhD programmes need to better prepare students for careers outside universities, researchers warn.
UNC-CH | Rethinking AI Responsibility
Jun 23, 2025 - Francesca Tripodi is putting people at the heart of AI — challenging bias, teaching ethics, and shaping a more responsible future for technology.
A framework for values-based assessment in promotion, tenure, and other academic evaluations
Jun 20, 2025 - The framework includes 14 values (e.g. creativity, inclusivity, engagement, public good), and for each value.
🚨2025 DAIR³: Data and AI Intensive Research with Rigor and Reproducibility🚨
Jun 23, 2025 - The UTSA, Jackson University and U-M Ann Arbor held a 2-day training on DAIR
Maryland Universities Team With Google for AI, Tech Certificates
Jun 20, 2025 - University System of Maryland students will have free access to Google Career Certificates in cybersecurity, data analytics, digital marketing and e-commerce, IT support, project management and UX design.
Chief AI Officer: Higher Ed’s New Leadership Role
Jun 20, 2025 - Those stepping up to fill education’s new C-suite role say it's more than just understanding IT — it requires communication and skill-building across disciplines and comfort levels, and flexibility to create a road map.
Temple University eyes job reductions amid $60M deficit for FY26
Jun 20, 2025 - The public institution’s president said that enrollment is starting to rebound after a steep drop since 2017, but costs have increased much more quickly.
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Jun 21, 2025 - AI is ideally suited to replacing the very type of person who built it. Enrollment in CS quadrupled from 2005 to 2023, but enrollment was up just 0.2% nationally this year.
Accidental death data threatened by Trump CDC cuts
Jun 23, 2025 - Key data on fatal car accidents, drug overdose deaths, firearm injuries and even dog bites is at risk.
UNC-Chapel Hill | Welcome to the Library AI
Jun 12, 2025 - Tar Heels of all skill levels can experiment with generative AI in the new Davis Library space.
Trump says he's close to 'a Deal' with Harvard, as judge grants injunction
Jun 20, 2025 - Trump's Truth Social comments came as a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction that would continue blocking the president's efforts to bar international students from attending Harvard.
42 percent of UC Irvine bachelor's degrees earned by first-generation students
Jun 3, 2025 - Over 8,600 class of 2025 members will attend commencement ceremonies this month
Three UNC-CH SDSS faculty travel on the 2025 Tar Heel Bus Tour
Jun 19, 2025 - SDSS faculty made connections between community experiences and the research they were doing at Carolina.
The Data We Take for Granted
Jun 20, 2025 - Like many things in life, we’ve been taking our data for granted and will miss it terribly when it’s gone.
Impact of NIH Grant Terminations on Population Association of America members
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How States Are Responding to the Rise of AI in Education
Jun 17, 2025 - When ChatGPT debuted in 2022, no states had policies related to generative artificial intelligence (genAI). Fast forward to April 2025, and at least 28.
Minnesota State to Offer Robotics Engineering, AI Degrees
Jun 18, 2025 - In response to industry demands, Minnesota State University will offer a bachelor's degree in robotics engineering and a master's degree in artificial intelligence this fall, expecting about 25 students in each.
Holyoke Community College to Offer Free 'AI Essentials' Course
Jun 13, 2025 - A college in Massachusetts is working with the nonprofit CanCode Communities to offer a free 12-week course this summer on the fundamentals of AI including prompt engineering, model structures, ethics and other topics.
Where is the best place to hold a scientific conference right now?
Jun 19, 2025 - An immigration crackdown makes the United States less attractive. These locations could steal its crown and make conferences more globally inclusive.
Tracking the Trump administration’s moves to cap indirect research funding
Jun 19, 2025 - The agencies that have tried to limit reimbursement for overhead costs to 15% — and the legal challenges against them.
Unpacking the bias of large language models
Jun 17, 2025 - MIT researchers discovered the underlying cause of position bias, a phenomenon that causes large language models to overemphasize the beginning or end of a document or conversation, while neglecting the middle.
What would the ‘big, beautiful bill’s’ higher endowment tax mean for Duke?
Jun 17, 2025 - The bill might raise the endowment tax for Duke from 1.4% to 7%, and it could raise the tax by nearly 20 percentage points for other institutions.
UPenn announces 4.9% acceptance rate for Class of 2029 in most selective year on record
Jun 13, 2025 - Out of the 72,544 students who applied to Penn, 3,530 applicants were accepted, marking a 4.9% acceptance rate.
Stanford celebrates its largest graduating class ever at Commencement 2025
Jun 15, 2025 - More than 21,000 attendees filled Stanford Stadium for a celebration.
Brown University, others sue Department of Defense over cuts to federal research funding
Jun 16, 2025 - The University stands to lose $3 million in federal dollars this fiscal year from the new limit on indirect research costs.
Judge orders federal government to restore some canceled NIH funds
Jun 18, 2025 - U.S. District Court Judge William Young ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration unlawfully cancelled NIH funding for research related to topics of DEI
UAmsterdam DSC Away Day
Jun 18, 2025 - The DSC Away Day explored how AI in video challenges our creativity, ethics, and ways of working - set against the backdrop of the Eye Film Institute.
UPenn | ‘Where AI Works’
Jun 9, 2025 - The Wharton School’s new podcast conducts conversations at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industry.