Higher Ed News

1763 bookmarks

Newest

UW-Madison graduate program to decrease admissions offers amid federal funding uncertainty

Feb. 25, 2025 - Graduate programs at UW-Madison are being advised to decrease admissions offers due to increased student yield and potential funding decline, according university leadership.

#University of Wisconsin-Madison #Trump #NIH #graduate #ADSA member

UW-Madison graduate program to decrease admissions offers amid federal funding uncertainty

UC workers will strike this week. Here’s what that means for students and patients

Feb. 25, 2025 - Core emergency services will remain available, but some appointments will be delayed as 20,000 employees walk off the job.

#California #higher ed #employment

UC workers will strike this week. Here’s what that means for students and patients

DOGE said it cut $881 million at the Education Department. The real savings are much less.

Feb. 26, 2025 - A new analysis shows it doesn't account for roughly $400 million that was effectively wasted – not saved – by the DOGE team.

#Department of Education #Trump

DOGE said it cut $881 million at the Education Department. The real savings are much less.

Penn State will close some campuses amid enrollment decline, president says

Feb. 26, 2025 - Those locations account for 75% of Penn State’s commonwealth enrollment and 67% of faculty and staff, Bendapudi said.

#Penn State #budget

Penn State will close some campuses amid enrollment decline, president says

In-state college tuition rates have been frozen in SC for 5 years. That may change

Feb. 21, 2025 - “We want to give (colleges) some sort of flexibility, because it’s a broken model,” said state Rep. Nathan Ballentine, R-Richland.

#South Carolina #higher ed

In-state college tuition rates have been frozen in SC for 5 years. That may change

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

Feb. 26, 2025 - The agency cannot retain scientists in 1-year to 4-year positions that have long been routinely renewed.

#NIH #Trump #career #training #research

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research

McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs | CBC News

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.

#McGill University #budget

McGill University planning to cut budget by $45M, slash up to 500 jobs | CBC News

Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions

Feb. 26, 2025 - A statistical analysis of Canadian universities from 1970 to 2022.

#Canada #DEI #higher ed #data

Women’s representation and compensation in full-time faculty positions

‘Journalism Is Expensive’: Harvard Public Health Magazine Closes After Financial Struggles

Feb. 26, 2025 - More than a decade after its launch, the Harvard Public Health Magazine announced on Monday that the publication would shut down after struggling to turn a profit.

#Harvard #budget

‘Journalism Is Expensive’: Harvard Public Health Magazine Closes After Financial Struggles

Texas Southern University Requests $6.6M for AI Initiative

Feb. 21, 2025 - The university is hoping to streamline administrative operations, improve AI literacy and enhance recruitment efforts. It has also requested millions more from the legislature for other tech-related initiatives.

#AI #EdTech #Texas Southern University #higher ed

Texas Southern University Requests $6.6M for AI Initiative

Old Dominion University Launches Enterprise Chatbot

Feb. 24, 2025 - Specifically designed for faculty, MonarchMind gives users access to ChatGPT, Gemini and Llama on a secure, university-run system that does not share chat data with outside parties or use it to train AI models.

#Old Dominion University #GAI #EdTech

Old Dominion University Launches Enterprise Chatbot

Survey: Higher Ed AI Adoption Faces Financial, Policy Hurdles

Feb. 25, 2025 - A new EDUCAUSE study reveals that while AI is becoming a strategic priority in higher education, cost and policy development, especially at small schools, still hinders widespread implementation.

#AI #higher ed #policy

Survey: Higher Ed AI Adoption Faces Financial, Policy Hurdles

Unions protest Sonoma State’s planned cuts to faculty and programs amid $23.9M deficit - Local News Matters

Feb. 24, 2025 - The California Faculty Association, students and other unions have held rally at Sonoma State University ahead of last week’s on-campus legislative forum.

#Sonoma State University #budget #higher ed

Unions protest Sonoma State’s planned cuts to faculty and programs amid $23.9M deficit - Local News Matters

Why the University of Texas System is offering microcredentials to students — for free

Feb. 26, 2025 - The public network is providing access to Coursera’s Career Academy, which includes professional certificates from companies like Microsoft and Google.

#microcredentials #certificate #Texas #higher ed #Microsoft #google

Why the University of Texas System is offering microcredentials to students — for free

University of Missouri announces cuts, full impact not yet known

Feb. 24, 2025 - The MU president warned university system faces challenges and cuts to federal programs in the near future and will need to take steps to address those issues.

#University of Missouri #Trump #NIH #NSF

University of Missouri announces cuts, full impact not yet known

UC Irvine | Workshop Brings Together SoCal Leaders in Causal Reasoning

Feb. 24, 2025 - Around 80 researchers gathered at UC Irvine for the SoCal Workshop on Causal Reasoning.

#UC Irvine #ADSA member #NSF #AI

UC Irvine | Workshop Brings Together SoCal Leaders in Causal Reasoning

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Six papers by CSE researchers at SIGCSE TS 2025

Feb. 25, 2025 - Six papers authored by researchers affiliated with CSE are being presented at the 2025 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS).

#data science #SIGCSE #computer science #University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

UMichigan-Ann Arbor | Six papers by CSE researchers at SIGCSE TS 2025

Penn State University | Making machine learning models more fair focus of Tan lab

Feb. 20, 2025 - Professor Tan is helping researchers customize fair models by mitigating biases in existing machine learning models in open-source libraries such as Tensorflow or Scikit-Learn.

#Penn State #machine learning #bias #data science #ADSA member

Penn State University | Making machine learning models more fair focus of Tan lab

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

Jan. 29, 2025 - The Smithsonian isn't a federal agency, but it gets much of its funding from federal appropriations.

#Smithsonian Institution #DEI #Trump

The Smithsonian will close its diversity office and freeze federal hiring

Edinburgh warns of ‘radical’ action under £140m of cuts

Feb. 25, 2025 - The University is expecting to shed staff and curb capital spending in a bid to save £140 milllion over the next 18 months

#University of Edinburgh #higher ed #budget

Edinburgh warns of ‘radical’ action under £140m of cuts

DOGE blocked from accessing Education Department’s sensitive student data until March 10

Feb. 24, 2025 - A judge said the Trump administration failed to explain why the Department of Government Efficiency needed “sweeping access” to the agency’s records.

#Department of Education #Trump

DOGE blocked from accessing Education Department’s sensitive student data until March 10

Canceled meetings and confusion: NIH grant funding in limbo despite court injunction | WBUR News

Feb. 24, 2025 - Researchers awaiting NIH funding say their grant meetings are being canceled, despite a court order blocking the Trump administration from freezing federal funds.

#NIH #Trump

Canceled meetings and confusion: NIH grant funding in limbo despite court injunction | WBUR News

Northwestern Libraries’ website removes DEI mention as University responds to executive orders

Feb. 23, 2025 - Northwestern Libraries removed the mention of diversity on its website, following President Donald Trump’s executive orders against DEI initiatives.

#Northwestern #DEI #Trump

Northwestern Libraries’ website removes DEI mention as University responds to executive orders

Senate alleges $4.9 million in Vanderbilt and VUMC NSF-funded research as promoting ‘far-left ideology’

Feb. 24, 2025 - U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-TX) flagged 3,483 NSF grants, including 15 awarded to Vanderbilt.

#Vanderbilt #politics #DEI #NSF

Senate alleges $4.9 million in Vanderbilt and VUMC NSF-funded research as promoting ‘far-left ideology’

Penn schools scrubbed their DEI websites. Here’s what’s left.

Feb. 24, 2025 - Four undergraduate and 12 graduate schools have scrubbed references to diversity, equity, and inclusion from their respective webpages over the past two weeks.

#UPenn #DEI #Trump

Penn schools scrubbed their DEI websites. Here’s what’s left.

Officials tack on additional leadership review for hiring, promotions to preserve GW’s ‘limited’ resources

Feb. 24, 2025 - Officials will add another step to the approval process for faculty and staff hiring and promotions to protect GW’s “limited” resources.

#George Washington University #Trump

Officials tack on additional leadership review for hiring, promotions to preserve GW’s ‘limited’ resources

PhD admission decrease won’t affect research goals, University says

Jan. 28, 2025 - PhD budget growth is set to be reduced from 6% to 4% through reduced admissions targets.

#Brown #graduate #budget #ADSA member

PhD admission decrease won’t affect research goals, University says

Social Security Slashes Cooperative Agreements

Feb. 21, 2025 - The Social Security Administration today announced the termination of their Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) cooperative agreements.

#Trump #research #higher ed #DEI

Social Security Slashes Cooperative Agreements

‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat | Penn Today

Feb. 20, 2025 - The Penn Center for Learning Analytics is piloting an AI teaching assistant.

#AI #GAI #UPenn #higher ed #EdTech

‘JeepyTA’ has entered the chat | Penn Today

UC San Diego | SDSC Leads Effort to Enhance National Research Data Management Ecosystem Infrastructure

Feb. 21, 2025 - Following international standards, the system provides a transparent and reliable way to centralize and preserve vital project information—even after a project ends.

#ADSA member #UC San Diego #NSF #data science

UC San Diego | SDSC Leads Effort to Enhance National Research Data Management Ecosystem Infrastructure