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  • NIH Grant Terminations Have ‘Frightening Implications’ for Science

    NIH Grant Terminations Have ‘Frightening Implications’ for Science

    A: I now have to work with my mentors to generate a new dissertation proposal and send it to my committee and get it reapproved, which means I have to access data sets at my institution that have either already been collected or that are safe from future rounds of cuts like this.


    Three Questions With Lee Bradshaw on the Evolving Online Program Landscape

    Three Questions With Lee Bradshaw on the Evolving Online Program Landscape

    But assuming you have a competent tech stack, a skilled team and you’re building something the market favors, you can launch a 30-credit online master’s degree for roughly $900,000 to $1.2 million in the early years before breaking even as enrollment comes in.


    Faculty Organizations Sue on Behalf of Columbia Members

    Faculty Organizations Sue on Behalf of Columbia Members

    In a news release Tuesday, the same day they filed the lawsuit, the AAUP and AFT alleged that the Trump administration used “cuts as a cudgel to coerce a private institution to adopt restrictive speech codes and allow government control over teaching and learning.”


    The Struggling Sanctuary Campus Movement

    The Struggling Sanctuary Campus Movement

    “While I await legal decisions that hold the futures of my wife and child in the balance, those who enabled my targeting remain comfortably at Columbia University,” Khalil said in a statement from an ICE detention center in Louisiana.


    Texas Court Blocks Ban on Drag Shows at Texas A&M

    Texas Court Blocks Ban on Drag Shows at Texas A&M

    In his ruling, U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal described colleges and universities as testing grounds for new ideas and therefore a place where the First Amendment right to free expression must be protected.


    5 Questions To Ask Before Adopting an AI Tool

    5 Questions To Ask Before Adopting an AI Tool

    Make sure whoever is pitching an AI project isn’t going for the buzzword du jour but really has selected the correct technology to solve a real problem.


    Democrats Seek Transparency on Trump’s Plans to Dismantle ED

    Democrats Seek Transparency on Trump’s Plans to Dismantle ED

    “President Trump’s executive order has little regard for the irreparable harm it will cause to students, educators, our future workforce, and parents, who are already struggling.”


    University of Utah Receives $75M for New Medical Campus

    University of Utah Receives $75M for New Medical Campus

    “For 60 years, the Eccles family has offered both unwavering leadership and financial support for excellence in health care throughout the state.”


    Preparing nursing students to deliver culturally aware health care

    Preparing nursing students to deliver culturally aware health care

    For example, in a case study that explored end of life rituals, students discussed how they could honor a patient’s wishes that the deceased remain untouched, intact (no organ donation) and unmoved for a period in today’s fast-paced inpatient hospital environment where bed space is limited.


    Johns Hopkins to lay off 2,200 workers as it reels from Trump’s USAID cuts

    Johns Hopkins to lay off 2,200 workers as it reels from Trump’s USAID cuts

    Employees in USAID-funded positions at Johns Hopkins have worked to “care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world,” a university spokesperson said in an emailed statement.


    How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being? (opinion)

    How Can Deans Support Faculty Well-Being? (opinion)

    William A. Smith’s concept of “racial battle fatigue” is unfortunately alive and well in higher education, and deans can support their personnel suffering under the weight of that trauma not only by enacting policies that advance equity and inclusion, but also by offering to listen, intervening when invited and endorsing strategies of self-care.


    D.C. Area Colleges Help Retrain Laid-Off Federal Workers

    D.C. Area Colleges Help Retrain Laid-Off Federal Workers

    Northern Virginia Community College introduced the NOVA New Employment, Exploration and Transition (NOVAnext) program last week, offering laid-off federal workers and contractors in the region select classes—including in information technology, human resources, product management and entrepreneurship—for free.


    Kentucky lawmakers vote to ban DEI spending at public colleges

    Kentucky lawmakers vote to ban DEI spending at public colleges

    Andy Beshear, who has previously opposed efforts to limit DEI at public colleges, said Thursday that he intends to closely review the bill but appeared skeptical.


    ‘Inaccurate and misleading’: Democrat AGs push back against Trump’s DEI executive order

    ‘Inaccurate and misleading’: Democrat AGs push back against Trump’s DEI executive order

    Diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility best practices are not illegal, said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell and Illinois AG Kwame Raoul, in a multi-state DEIA at work guidance.


    Accreditors offer flexibility on DEI standards

    Accreditors offer flexibility on DEI standards

    Andrew Gillen, a research fellow at the conservative Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, wrote in a recent paper that “accreditors too often abuse their power as gatekeepers” to federal financial aid, including in areas such as pushing DEI standards.


    Trump admin. pauses all income-driven repayment plans

    Trump admin. pauses all income-driven repayment plans

    “The administration’s cruel choice to cut off access to affordable repayment options passed by Congress and enshrined in millions of borrowers’ loan contracts comes at the same time as they are wreaking havoc on communities and families across our nation,” Persis Yu, SBPC deputy executive director, said in a statement Monday.


    Penn State weighs campus closures

    Penn State weighs campus closures

    President Neeli Bendapudi wrote in a letter to the community that the seven largest Commonwealth Campuses (separate from the flagship at University Park) will remain open.