College costs grew 3.6% in fiscal 2025, HEPI shows
Dec 12, 2025 - Faculty salaries rose 4.3%, the highest recorded rate since the Higher Education Price Index began tracking inflation in the category in 1998.
Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world
Dec 11, 2025 - A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even corruption.
7 in 10 employers have high confidence in higher ed, survey finds
Dec 11, 2025 - The AAC&U-Morning Consult findings contrast with recent polling showing large shares of adults are questioning whether college is worth the cost.
College completion rate holds steady above 61%
Dec 4, 2025 - Earning college credit in high school made students more likely to graduate within six years, per the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Chinese students fueled graduate program growth in US, study finds
Dec 1, 2025 - American colleges benefited economically from an influx of Chinese students coming to the country to pursue master’s degrees, a working paper found.
How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year
Dec 1, 2025 - Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack
Infographic: How Accurate Are AI Chatbots?
Nov 28, 2025 - This chart shows the share of answers from the following AI assistants (free versions) that contain significant/minor inacurracy (in Dec. '24 vs. May-Jun. '25)
Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect
Nov 28, 2025 - Watch groups are on the alert for anything out of the ordinary in the official US government data.
Center for Open Science Awarded Grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to Preserve and Safeguard Publicly Funded Scientific Data
Nov 17, 2025 - The Center for Open Science (COS) was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to develop a community-driven strategic plan for ensuring long-term preservation, accessibility, and usability of federally-funded scientific data.
Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?
Nov 26, 2025 - National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government’s AI platform. But who stands to benefit?
Colleges Are Closing. Who Might Be Next?
Nov 25, 2025 - How machine learning can fill data gaps and help forecast the future
Trump signs executive order launching Genesis Mission AI project
Nov 24, 2025 - The order announced the “Genesis Mission” for AI, a new federal push to mobilize the federal government's research and data to create artificial intelligence models.
SUNY enrollment grew 2.9% in fall 2025, continuing upward trend
Nov 20, 2025 - The system's 30 community colleges saw a 5% headcount jump, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in part attributed to a new free college initiative.
As the supply of applicants declines, college admissions gets kinder and gentler
Nov 18, 2025 - Applicants are finding fee waivers, one-click applications, later deadlines and easier acceptance rates.
Grad school cuts are shrinking Ph.D. enrollment at Duke
Nov 17, 2025 - Duke University made deep cuts, while N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill kept growing.
International students in US up 4.5% in 2024-25 — but warning signs loom
Nov 17, 2025 - U.S. colleges enrolled more foreign students than ever before in the last academic year. But newly surveyed colleges say that enrollment is now falling.
Education Department zeroes in on 4-year colleges for expanded IPEDS collection
Nov 13, 2025 - The plan would exclude two-year colleges and open-enrollment institutions that award financial aid solely based on need.
Influential list of highly cited researchers now shuts out more scientists: here’s why
Nov 12, 2025 - Rule change weeds out many who co-author papers with others linked to suspicious practices.
National Adoption of Data Science Education 2025
Nov 12, 2025 - Explore interactive visualizations and data on K-12 data science education adoption across the United States.
OSU Imageomics joins $600K NSF FAIROS award for AI-ready ecology data infrastructure
Nov 10, 2025 - "Biodiversity is the foundation of life on Earth, but the data we need to understand and protect it are fragmented and hard to use,” said Berger-Wolf.
Undergraduate enrollment on track to increase for third straight year
Nov 11, 2025 - A preliminary National Student Clearinghouse Research Center report found strong growth at community colleges and among trade programs.
SDSC-housed Protein Data Bank Brings Molecules Up to Size
Nov 4, 2025 - Molecules craft the very fabric of reality while remaining too small for the human eye to glimpse. But thanks to PDB we can now “see” these hidden wonders.
Advocates warn of risks to higher ed data if Education Department is shuttered
Nov 10, 2025 - But new hires and fresh research grants hint at a quiet rebuilding effort
what do americans think of higher ed anyway?
Oct 29, 2025 - Two recent surveys give strikingly different answers.
Despite naysayers and rising costs, data shows that college still pays off for students – and society overall
Oct 27, 2025 - A recent survey shows a dramatic drop in people who consider a college degree to be very important from 2010 to this year.
Analysis: Idaho higher ed has more students — but fewer state dollars to support them
Oct 23, 2025 - Enrollment is rising and robust on Idaho’s four-year campuses. That’s good news. But it also poses problems, as colleges and universities weather Idaho’s self-inflicted budget crunch.
Black enrollment is waning at many elite colleges after affirmative action ban, AP analysis finds
Oct 23, 2025 - An Associated Press analysis finds that the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions.
Asian American Students Increase at Harvard, as Black Students Decline
Oct 23, 2025 - The shift mirrors trends at other elite schools after a ban on affirmative action. The Trump administration has said it wants to scrutinize demographics to ensure schools aren’t using racial preferences.
Former Climate.gov team building Climate.us—a new bridge between scientists and the public
Oct 21, 2025 - Rebecca Lindsey shares their team's plans for Climate.us, especially their rescue of the Fifth National Climate Assessment.
CERP Pulse Survey: A Snapshot of 2025 Undergraduate Computing Enrollment Patterns
Oct 21, 2025 - This article explores current enrollment trends across computing subdisciplines and considers the unique changes within computing relative to institutional enrollment patterns.