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.
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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.
Central Michigan University exchange student records terminated without notice
Apr. 7, 2025 - The Office of the President for Central Michigan University has issued a statement following the unexpected termination of exchange student records.
MSU international students’ visas revoked without notice
Apr. 7, 2025 - The U.S. Department of State has contacted Michigan State University students directly to inform them that their travel visas have been revoked.
Feds revoke visas of students at BU, Harvard, Tufts, Berklee, UMass and more
Apr. 7, 2025 - Some schools said the federal government had not notified them of their students’ change of status, but rather learned about it when reviewing records.
Feds revoke visas of Emerson, Harvard and Tufts students
Apr. 7, 2025 - Nearly a dozen international students lost their visas.
Ten Colorado international students – at least half Middle Eastern – have visas revoked
Apr. 2, 2025 - The students have the choice to either self-deport or stay and fight – but that leaves them open to being detained.
Nearly 150 Students Have Had Visas Revoked and Could Face Deportation
Apr. 7, 2025 - Dozens of schools, including the University of California and Harvard, said the Trump administration ended the visas of their students in recent days
Colleges around the US say some international students' visas are being revoked
Apr. 7, 2025 - Colleges around the country are reporting cases of international students suddenly learning their visas have been revoked.
UC Santa Cruz student visas canceled by Trump administration
Apr. 7, 2025 - Three University of California, Santa Cruz students had their student visas canceled by the Trump administration.
At least 50 ASU students have now had visas revoked, lawyer says
Apr. 7, 2025 - The number of international students at Arizona State University who have had their visas revoked is now at least 50.
UCSD preps for slashed budget amid NIH research funding cuts
Apr. 7, 2025 - Federal policies and terminated grants threaten the university's public health research engine.
Purdue in 'best position a university could be' as funding cuts loom, leadership says
Apr. 4, 2025 - Even as the Trump administration targets federal funding to American universities, Purdue officials said they are confident the university can weather the storm.
Clemson University added to list of 45 universities under investigation by US Department of Education
Apr. 3, 2025 - Clemson University was added to the list of 45 schools that the United States Department of Education will investigate for possible race-exclusionary policies under Title VI.
Northwestern directs some graduate programs to cap class sizes, defer enrollments
Apr. 2, 2025 - Northwestern officials directed some of the University’s graduate programs to cap their incoming class sizes by deferring enrollment for applicants who had yet to accept their admission offers.
MIT Biology graduate program reduces incoming PhD class size by 20% | The Tech
Mar. 6, 2025 - The reduction is due to “uncertainty in the federal funding environment.”