University of Virginia strikes deal to pause Trump administration investigations
Oct 22, 2025 - The U.S. Justice Department has announced an agreement with the University of Virginia to pause civil rights investigations.
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University of Northern Colorado plans to lay off 50 employees
Oct 23, 2025 - State budget cuts and a smaller-than-expected fall class contributed to millions of dollars of pressure on the public institution’s budget.
Emma Briant 'Exposing the Propaganda Machine'
Oct 22, 2025 - This episode of The New Abnormal podcast features Dr Emma Louise Briant, an internationally recognised expert and professor of information warfare & propaganda.
The informational disciplines
Oct 22, 2025 - The history and contours of the informational disciplines - information science, LIS, library studies. It notes the ongoing blurriness of identity, nomenclature and boundaries.
Lucy Family Institute Graduate Scholar Austin Wyman Receives Best Paper Award at International Data Science Conference
Oct 20, 2025 - Emotion detection AI is an emerging tool with applications across the fields of advertising, the automotive industry, education, human resources, and mental
Berkeley Institute for Data Science partners with 2i2c on open source infrastructure
Oct 22, 2025 - BIDS is the first premier member of 2i2c’s new community network, recognizing Berkeley’s longstanding contributions and commitment to the development of open source tools and infrastructure.
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold
Oct 21, 2025 - Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding.
Welcoming Four New Members to the CS&S Board of Directors
Oct 15, 2025 - The new class of board members brings financial expertise, human resources leadership, legal and policy perspective, and experience as part of the fiscally sponsored project program to the CS&S Board of Directors.
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.
It’s Here! Check Out the 2025 CRA Academic Member Book
Oct 21, 2025 - The Computing Research Association (CRA) is thrilled to celebrate the release of the 2025 Academic Member Book!
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.
CRA Update: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Computing Education — Together
Oct 21, 2025 - Many academic units are feeling the ripple effects of the recent headlines through declines in undergraduate enrollments.
‘Who’s Afraid of AI?’: UToronto event asks what kind of AI future we want
Oct 17, 2025 - The rapid advance of artificial intelligence has so far been met with a mix of optimism and fear – but relatively little insight into what this potentially smarter-than-us technology actually means for our lives.
From facing federal scrutiny to being a ‘good actor’: U.Va. and the Trump administration
Oct 20, 2025 - Although the University ultimately chose not to sign an agreement from the Trump administration, Interim University President Paul Mahoney left open the possibility of future collaboration and alternative approaches in his letter to the Education Department.
Notre Dame Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
Oct 17, 2025 - The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
National Institutes of Health awards $19.5 million to Ohio State ARTEMIS Suicidal Prediction and Prevention Study
Oct 20, 2025 - The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and College of Medicine are launching a study funded by a $19.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
7 of Duke’s peer institutions decline Trump’s preferential funding compact
Oct 20, 2025 - Signing onto the compact would entail accepting the administration’s positions on topical issues such as admissions, freedom of speech, foreign visas, women’s sports and college affordability.
Bucknell Professor Jude Okolie Harnesses AI to Assess Sources of Biodiesel Fuel
Oct 15, 2025 - Bucknell chemical engineering professor explores how deep learning can revolutionize biodiesel production.
Northeastern researchers wrestle with ‘demoralizing’ grant cuts
Oct 15, 2025 - Katherine Trice's National Institutes of Health’s F31 diversity fellowship supplied a necessary equipment boost for her thesis work.
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles
Oct 21, 2025 - The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.
Princeton's Eisgruber calls Trump administration compact ‘a dangerous step in the wrong direction’
Oct 20, 2025 - The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” lays out a comprehensive vision for the Trump administration’s educational priorities, and follows months of sustained pressure on Princeton and other elite institutions.
Pitt’s “Forging the Future: The Intersection of Health, AI and Tech” global summit kicks off
Oct 20, 2025 - Pitt kicked off its first-of-a-kind global summit, “Forging the Future: The Intersection of Health, AI and Tech,” on Monday, Oct. 20, a day after the annual Global Federation of Competitiveness Council conference on Sunday, Oct. 19.
University to launch campus climate survey, fulfilling agreement with federal government
Oct 20, 2025 - The survey will be sent to students next week and will inform the future of diversity and inclusion at Brown.
Under political pressure, colleges try to recruit more rural students
Oct 20, 2025 - Facing calls to diversify viewpoints and cap international enrollment, elite schools are turning to a group often overlooked in admissions: students from small-town America.
Arizona colleges face ‘devastating impact’ after Trump slashes grant funds to minority-serving institutions
Oct 20, 2025 - Ten community colleges and universities in Arizona will lose at least $13.8 million after President Donald Trump's administration cut discretionary funding to minority-serving institutions.
Amazon and Carnegie Mellon University Launch Strategic AI Innovation Hub
Oct 15, 2025 - The collaboration between CMU and Amazon will advance research in generative AI, robotics, natural language processing and cloud computing while fostering innovation in foundational and emerging technologies.
Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot
Oct 15, 2025 - A Stanford study reveals that leading AI companies are pulling user conversations for training, highlighting privacy risks and a need for clearer policies.
Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings
Oct 20, 2025 - A recent report and webinar explored how to improve the performance and safety of machine learning in these settings.
How Chinese paper mills use AI to create ‘higher quality’ academic fraud
Oct 15, 2025 - Paper mills that sell authorship or fabricate entire papers are a staple of China’s competitive academic landscape.
AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Oct 20, 2025 - Chatbots now ace the mathematician's famous imitation game, but imitation never equalled intelligence.