Northwestern | Medill denies tenure, intends to terminate Prof Steven Thrasher next year
Mar. 20, 2025 - Northwestern denied tenure to Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher and plans not to renew his position in August 2026.
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Princeton | Affinity and cultural groups comment on ODUS policy refresher amid Trump’s DEI attacks
Mar. 20, 2025 - Student groups react to the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies’s request to update promotional materials to explicitly say that the groups are open to all Princeton students.
Trump DEI rollbacks push NYU Langone to ditch terms like ‘marginalized’ or ‘diverse’
Mar. 21, 2025 - NYU Langone Health is facing pressure from in-house lawyers to omit phrases like “diverse students” and “systemic racism” from its website.
MIT | AI tool generates high-quality images faster than state-of-the-art approaches
Mar. 21, 2025 - A hybrid AI approach known as hybrid autoregressive transformer can generate realistic images with the same or better quality than state-of-the-art diffusion models, but that runs about nine times faster and uses fewer computational resources.
Syracuse USen addresses Department of Education funding cuts
Mar. 20, 2025 - Chancellor Syverud assured SU’s Senate of financial stability while addressing federal changes to the DOEd race-based programs.
US Department of Education investigates Ohio State for alleged racial discrimination due to DEI-related partnership
Mar. 20, 2025 - Ohio State is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights due to alleged racial discrimination in its graduate programs.
Emory announces new Open Expression Policy
Mar. 20, 2025 - In the new policy, Emory pledged to use a content-neutral approach, to address open expression issues and policy violations.
UToronto renews five-year research partnership with Konica Minolta
Mar. 20, 2025 - The University of Toronto and Konica Minolta, Inc. are renewing a research partnership focused on AI and internet-connected devices.
Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement
Mar. 20, 2025 - Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens traveling to the US to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention.
Students report confusion in co-op hiring processes amid federal funding cuts, hiring freezes
Mar. 19, 2025 - Students report that co-op offers have been rescinded from Harvard and Cornell.
Trump signs order closing Education Department to ‘maximum extent appropriate’
Mar. 20, 2025 - The directive comes on the heels of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon's decision to gut half the agency as its "final mission.”
Ohio House passes DEI-banning Senate Bill 1; bill returns to Ohio Senate for concurrence
Mar. 20, 2025 - OSB1 aims to ban DEI initiatives and prevent faculty from striking, as well as limit the teaching of controversial subjects within Ohio's public higher education institutions.
ASU Students argue against changes to LGBTQ+ resources
Mar. 19, 2025 - Students are challenging the University's claim that the relocation of pages for LGBTQ+ community resources is solely to "condense and reorganize" ASU websites.
UC announces elimination of diversity statements in hiring processes
Mar. 19, 2025 - The University of California system will no longer require diversity statements as part of hiring processes.
Student senate tests ND AI pilot and looks ahead to new term
Mar. 20, 2025 - Notre Dame announced a new AI pilot program, which will provide students access to an advanced AI assistant that could include advising features such as registering for classes and exploring major and minor options.
America's support for cutting-edge research is a smart investment
Mar. 20, 2025 - Federal support underpins the entire spectrum of scientific research, from basic discoveries to medications for our families.
MIT | Update to international travel guidance
Mar. 19, 2025 - International students and scholars on temporary visas and U.S. permanent residents (green card holders) are encouraged to postpone or delay international travel, whether personal, academic, or professional, until additional guidance is available.
BU Professors, administration share views on AI usage on campus amid rapid industry growth
Mar. 19, 2025 - BU does not currently have an institutional policy regarding the use of AI, but considers representing the work of AI as one’s own without appropriate credit to be plagiarism.
Executive Vice President and Treasurer Glen Shor discusses MIT’s financial strategy for the 2025-2026 academic year
Mar. 20, 2025 - Severe disruptions will affect NIH-funded projects, including the developing improved treatment for Alzheimer's disease in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory as well as numerous ongoing cancer research projects in the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer research.
Georgetown | Trump is seeking to deport another academic who is legally in the country, lawsuit says
Mar. 19, 2025 - Badar Khan Suri, a fellow at Georgetown, says he is being punished because of the suspected views of his wife, a U.S. citizen with Palestinian heritage.
CCIA Files Comments on AI for OSTP, NSF - CCIA
Mar. 17, 2025 - In response to a request for information on artificial intelligence from the National Science Foundation on behalf of the Office of Science and
The Continuing Crisis, Part IX: Inside the NIH Now
Mar. 19, 2025 - At the NIH and other agencies, administrators have been told to submit plans for such reductions this week, so that will be thing to look out for.
Fallout from Trump research cuts expands across academia
Mar. 19, 2025 - Experts predict university research could be forever changed, affecting work on treatments for conditions including cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes.
NYU freezes hiring amid federal funding uncertainty
Mar. 19, 2025 - NYU placed an immediate hold on hiring and will lower salary increases for faculty and staff.
UCCS being investigated for “race-exclusionary practices”
Mar. 18, 2025 - The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is among 45 universities being investigated by the Department of Education (DOE) for “race-exclusionary practices.”
Bunker Hill Community College cancels study abroad programs over Trump immigration actions
Mar. 17, 2025 - Bunker Hill Community College is canceling all of its short-term summer study abroad programs this year.
Illinois’ community colleges see nearly 9% spike in spring enrollment
Mar. 18, 2025 - Illinois community colleges see an 8.9% enrollment increase, surpassing 285,000 students, marking a third year of growth.
Prospective UW-Madison grad students lose funding offers amid federal cuts
Mar. 19, 2025 - With current federal funding uncertainties driven by the Trump administration, faculty scientists said they now have limited funds to offer students.
Kent State University cutting several majors, eliminating around 30 administrators
Mar. 19, 2025 - Transformation 2028 aims to strengthen the Division of Academic Affairs.
College Prices Seen as Unfair but Worth the Investment
Mar. 18, 2025 - Few current or prospective college students say four-year colleges charge fair prices, but most say the investment pays off within five years of graduation.