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Gov. Newsom Taps Universities for State AI Council

Dec 16, 2025 - A 30-member California Innovation Council will include executives and leaders from the UC system, the Brookings Institute, Stanford University and the California Chamber of Commerce, among others.

#AI #California

Gov. Newsom Taps Universities for State AI Council

DePaul University cuts nearly 8% of staff

Dec 16, 2025 - The Catholic institution is trying to plug an unplanned budget shortfall after a sharp decline of international students and other financial woes.

#DePaul University #budget #student visas #Trump

DePaul University cuts nearly 8% of staff

What’s at stake as the Trump administration targets Harvard’s patents?

Dec 15, 2025 - Legal experts are watching whether the federal government will take the unprecedented step of seizing patents from federally funded research.

#Harvard #intellectual property #Trump

What’s at stake as the Trump administration targets Harvard’s patents?

Trump calls for federal policy framework preempting state AI laws

Dec 12, 2025 - The executive order comes as Big Tech pushes back on local AI regulation while pouring billions into building out AI infrastructure and deploying new products.

#AI #Trump #policy

Trump calls for federal policy framework preempting state AI laws

College costs grew 3.6% in fiscal 2025, HEPI shows

Dec 12, 2025 - Faculty salaries rose 4.3%, the highest recorded rate since the Higher Education Price Index began tracking inflation in the category in 1998.

#high ed #data

College costs grew 3.6% in fiscal 2025, HEPI shows

Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions

Dec 11, 2025 - Some of the nation’s most prestigious colleges have been enrolling record numbers of low-income students as campuses prioritize economic diversity in the wake of a ban on affirmative action.

#DEI #higher ed

Without affirmative action, elite colleges are prioritizing economic diversity in admissions

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Appropriators Provide Flat Funding for DOE Office of Science While ASCR Gets an Increase

Dec 11, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 Senate Appropriations Committee’s Energy and Water legislation.

#CRA #DoE #budget

FY26 Appropriations Update: Senate Appropriators Provide Flat Funding for DOE Office of Science While ASCR Gets an Increase

EEOC opens claims process in $21M Columbia University settlement

Dec 10, 2025 - The agency alleged the university engaged in a pattern or practice of harassment against Jewish employees since at least Oct. 7, 2023.

#Columbia University #DEI #Trump

EEOC opens claims process in $21M Columbia University settlement

Wisconsin public universities could start shedding programs more rapidly

Dec 10, 2025 - A committee developed a new metric based on enrollment that could increase the number of degrees that get flagged for review.

#Wisconsin #policy #higher ed

Wisconsin public universities could start shedding programs more rapidly

NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs

Dec 8, 2025 - The MOSAIC program was terminated because it was seen as running afoul of Trump’s executive order to eliminate DEI initiatives.

#NIH #Trump #DEI

NIH shut out hundreds of young scientists from funding to start their own labs

Oklahoma regents vote to cut 41 ‘low-producing’ academic programs

Dec 8, 2025 - The state coordinating board also moved to suspend another 21 programs across Oklahoma's public institutions.

#Oklahoma #University of Oklahoma #Langston University #Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma regents vote to cut 41 ‘low-producing’ academic programs

Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes

Dec 5, 2025 - The Ivy League institution’s tax bill starting next year will be higher than what it spends on student aid, university officials said.

#Yale #Trump #budget

Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes

Harvard Departments Brace for Teaching Fellow Shortage After Ph.D. Cuts

Dec 4, 2025 - Harvard’s deep cuts to PhD admissions are on track to leave undergraduate courses short of teaching fellows within two years, a looming squeeze already pushing departments to prepare contingency plans.

#Harvard #budget

Harvard Departments Brace for Teaching Fellow Shortage After Ph.D. Cuts

FY26 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Propose Difficult Budget Cuts for NSF, NIST, and NASA

Dec 4, 2025 - Analysis of the Fiscal Year 2026 House Appropriations Committee’s Commerce, Justice, Science legislation.

#CRA #policy #Trump #funding #NSF #NIST #NASA #NIH

FY26 Appropriations Update: House Appropriators Propose Difficult Budget Cuts for NSF, NIST, and NASA

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

Dec 2, 2025 - A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.

#NIH #NSF #Trump #funding #higher ed #research

The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine

Here’s what to know about Calvin University’s 12.5% faculty reduction, program cuts

Dec 2, 2025 - The cuts were described in a letter as honoring Calvin’s “distinctive mission” and ensuring long-term sustainability.

#Calvin University #budget

Here’s what to know about Calvin University’s 12.5% faculty reduction, program cuts

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching

Dec 1, 2025 - Tech, now the second Texas public university system to add similar teaching restrictions, had earlier directed faculty to follow state and federal guidance recognizing only two sexes.

#Texas Tech University #DEI #politics

Texas Tech System restricts race and gender teaching

White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI

Dec 1, 2025 - This new effort is described as a “whole-of-government approach” creating, “a national discovery platform that unites the world’s most powerful supercomputers, AI systems, and emerging quantum technologies with the nation’s most advanced scientific instruments.”

#CRA #AI #policy

White House Announces Genesis Mission with the Aim to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through AI

University of Lynchburg offers faculty buyouts to address finances

Dec 1, 2025 - An administrator says no programs will be cut, and there's not a target figure for how faculty accept the offer.

#University of Lynchburg #budget

University of Lynchburg offers faculty buyouts to address finances

What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?

Dec 1, 2025 - The Illinois institution agreed to pay the federal government $75 million over three years and make key policy changes to have research funding restored.

#Trump #Northwestern

What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?

University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M

Dec 1, 2025 - Revenue growth outpaced cost increases as the private nonprofit aims for a balanced budget by the decade’s end.

#UChicago #budget

University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year

Dec 1, 2025 - Decades of carefully built infrastructure aimed at improving and tracking how American children learn vanished in an ideological attack

#high ed #Department of Education #data #Trump

How Trump 2.0 upended education research and statistics in one year

Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect

Nov 28, 2025 - Watch groups are on the alert for anything out of the ordinary in the official US government data.

#Trump #data

Economic Data Dashboards Flourish to Track the Trump Effect

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

Nov 26, 2025 - National laboratories have been instructed to broaden access to their data sets to accelerate research as part of the federal government’s AI platform. But who stands to benefit?

#OpenAI #policy #AI #data #DoE #University of Tennessee Knoxville #Trump #Nvidia #Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Trump’s AI ‘Genesis Mission’: what are the risks and opportunities?

Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs

Nov 24, 2025 - The eliminations are part of a regular review of degree productivity based on graduate numbers. The latest review found 214 underperforming programs.

#Florida #University of Florida #FSU

Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs

Indiana Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values

Nov 21, 2025 - The new degree proposal form issued by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education asks how programs cultivate "commitment to the core values of American society."

#Indiana #politics #higher ed

Indiana Universities must explain how new degrees promote American values

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department

Nov 18, 2025 - The department will shift responsibility for several of its core functions to other federal agencies.

#Trump #Department of Education

Trump administration launches plan to dismantle Education Department

How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts

Nov 17, 2025 - Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.

#higher ed #Trump #student visas

How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts

Grad school cuts are shrinking Ph.D. enrollment at Duke

Nov 17, 2025 - Duke University made deep cuts, while N.C. State and UNC-Chapel Hill kept growing.

#Duke University #graduate #NCSU #UNC Chapel Hill #data #Trump #higher ed

Grad school cuts are shrinking Ph.D. enrollment at Duke

International students in US up 4.5% in 2024-25 — but warning signs loom

Nov 17, 2025 - U.S. colleges enrolled more foreign students than ever before in the last academic year. But newly surveyed colleges say that enrollment is now falling.

#student visas #higher ed #data #graduate

International students in US up 4.5% in 2024-25 — but warning signs loom