Cost of attendance rises to $96,078 for 2025-26 year
Apr. 16, 2025 - The new full cost of attendance for Tufts University will be approximately $96,078 for incoming undergraduate students for the 2025–26 academic year
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Nearly 1500 urge Stanford leaders to oppose Trump policies
Apr. 17, 2025 - Messages from faculty and the Undergraduate Senate expressed concerns over academic freedom, institutional autonomy and student rights.
Harvard’s tax-exempt status threatened
Apr. 17, 2025 - Ability to host foreign students also in jeopardy.
Brain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country's statistics
Apr. 17, 2025 - Staff departures and survey cuts are roiling the federal agency in charge of producing census results, job numbers and other key statistics as Trump officials continue to slash the U.S. government.
Trump policy targeting immigrants shuts California students out of federal programs
Apr. 17, 2025 - California colleges support low-income students — including non-citizens — using federal funds. Trump policy now excludes non-citizens.
Concerns rise for international students at U of M, nationwide
Apr. 17, 2025 - Several University of Memphis international students are facing status concerns, as fears are growing for students at universities nationwide.
International student's visa record terminated in Tucson
Apr. 16, 2025 - n international student's SEVIS record at Pima Community College was terminated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
5000 faculty from around the country call on academic leaders to resist
Apr. 17, 2025 - Universities Join Forces to Call on Administrative Bodies to Stand Up to Attacks on Higher Education.
UC Berkeley International students fight visa terminations, allege biometric tracking
Apr. 15, 2025 - Hundreds of international student visas and resident statuses have been revoked or terminated across the nation.
Trump administration threatens Harvard with foreign student ban
Apr. 17, 2025 - Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused the institution of "threatening national security".
Utah State University merges 5 colleges into 2 as state mandates multimillion-dollar budget cuts
Apr. 15, 2025 - Utah State University will restructure its academic programs, including several large-scale mergers and a still unknown number of employee layoffs.
Court blocks Dept of Homeland Security, restores visas for MSU international students
Apr. 15, 2025 - A temporary restraining order has been issued against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) by a district court judge.
Student visas pulled at colleges across the Ozarks, sending international students back home
Apr. 16, 2025 - Missouri State University is providing academic support to six students whose student visas have been revoked.
Minnesota joins 19 states in suing Trump administration over canceled student visas
Apr. 15, 2025 - The administration has now canceled the visas of nearly 530 students, faculty and researchers across 88 colleges and universities.
UVU axes center that had served 'multicultural,' LGBTQ and other students
Apr. 15, 2025 - Utah Valley University has abruptly shut a center created last year in response to the 2024 state law dismantling diversity initiatives at Utah's public universities.
Some FSU international students, one at FAMU stripped of visas, universities say
Apr. 15, 2025 - The news comes after several international students from both public and private universities across the nation have had their visas revoked in recent weeks.
52 Kansas University-affiliated scientists recognized for Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
Apr. 16, 2025 - Fifty-two physicists affiliated with the University of Kansas — both currently and formerly — are on the teams that recently were awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics.
Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States
Apr. 15, 2025 - The Canadian Association of University Teachers released updated travel advice due to the "political landscape" created by the Trump administration.
Many HBCUs need government funding but some are preparing for a future without it
Apr. 16, 2025 - Several HBCU administrators who spoke to NBC News described a shared “culture of concern” across Black colleges.
‘None of these goals are illegal’: Universities struggle to respond to funding threats
Apr. 16, 2025 - More than 30 institutions have overhauled their diversity efforts, according to a POLITICO analysis.
Trump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
Apr. 16, 2025 - The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of President Trump’s feud with Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions and other nonprofit groups his administration views as “woke.”
What are Hispanic-serving institutions? A primer with 4 story ideas
Apr. 16, 2025 - A research-based explainer to help journalists cover Hispanic-serving institutions and the competition for higher education funding.
New Pathways to Research Experience: A Flexible Research Experience Course to Reach Community College Students
Apr. 16, 2025 - The Computing Talent Initiative (CTI) is an institute at California State University, Monterey Bay, focused on broadening the computing talent pipeline to serve students from all three public higher education systems of California.
Computing Faculty Hiring Impacted by Federal Funding Agency Uncertainty
Apr. 16, 2025 - 34% reported that the uncertainty around federal funding agencies had significantly or moderately affected their faculty search process.
Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding
Apr. 15, 2025 - Universities, as well as many charities and religious groups, are exempted from paying federal income taxes.
UCSB | Kyle Lee & J. Prescott: NSF GRFP Fellowships
Apr. 15, 2025 - NSF Graduate Research Fellows (GRFP) will receive three years of financial support, totaling nearly $150,000, in the form of an annual stipend, tuition, and fees
Trump throws wrench into NSF’s support for new Texas supercomputer | …
Apr. 15, 2025 - If Trump prevails in a spending showdown with Congress, it could delay or even end construction of Horizon, a $520 million supercomputer at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin.
'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research
Apr. 15, 2025 - NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.
What proposed NASA budget cuts could mean for current projects
Apr. 15, 2025 - The cuts may mean that projects that don’t have to do with getting humans to the Moon and Mars will come to an end.
2 Duke undergraduates named prestigious Goldwater Scholars for excellence in STEM
Apr. 15, 2025 - Junior Deven Gupta and sophomore Paul Rosu were selected as Goldwater Scholars out of a pool of over 1350 applicants.