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AI in education’s potential privacy nightmare

AI is now firmly entrenched in classrooms, but student privacy rules haven't caught up. Chatbots can expose troves of personal data in ways few parents, students or teachers fully understand.

Trump targets university accreditation—a non-governmental designation

President Trump is targeting university accreditors he claims support unlawful diversity initiatives, intensifying political battles over how colleges are evaluated. His actions, including an executive order and federal scrutiny of Harvard’s accreditor, challenge the traditionally non-governmental accreditation system.

More Northeast students are heading to LSU

More Northeastern teens are heading to the South for large state schools, with LSU seeing a nearly 500% increase in attendance from students in the Northeast between 2014 and 2023, an Axios data analysis shows.

Hundreds of degree programs axed at IU, Purdue and other public colleges

More than 400 programs are slated for elimination, culling nearly 20% of the degrees previously offered by the state's public higher education institutions.

Foreign students out-earn their native-born peers

Twenty-seven percent of workers who came to the U.S. on student visas are engaged in research and development, compared with 12% of native-born workers—a sign of how critical international students are to innovation, according to a new analysis of National Survey of College Graduates data.

Northeast students are heading south for college

Large southern state schools, many in already expanding metro areas, are attracting a geographically diverse student body as Americans are increasingly disillusioned with the value of higher education.

Roxbury Community College turns to students to bridge digital divide

Roxbury Community College enlisted top students to develop an AI-driven solution for improving engagement with online platforms. Their efforts led to its first hackathon, aimed at boosting digital literacy and academic performance for its largely low-income, minority student body.

Colleges dismantle DEI

Colleges across the country are shutting down expensive and expansive diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Moves include closing cultural centers and rewriting course catalogs, which can interfere with student life and threaten free speech.

Virginia’s in-state tuition and fees among nation’s highest

The cost of in-state college tuition in Virginia has gone down in the past five years when adjusted for inflation, but it's still higher than most of the U.S., according to the College Board.

Colleges use NIL rules as a top student athlete recruiting tool

Colleges' success with name image and likeness has become a top tool to recruit new student athletes, said Taylor Jacobs, LSU Athletics associate athletic...

Concierge medicine comes to college campuses

Many college students are already on their parents' insurance. But concierge arrangements can reassure nervous parents that a student gets quick access to a vetted professional without the wait times and other shortcomings associated with campus health clinics.

How UT’s president has endured campus unrest

Even as university presidents, under political pressure, have resigned their posts over their handling of protests over the Israel-Hamas war, the chief of the University of Texas...

Internet guru wants AI and higher education to be partners

Mary Meeker argues that the U.S. has wrested the AI lead from China, and that key to staying ahead is for tech and universities to treat each other as partners, rather than as obstacles.

Jamie Dimon says America’s school-to-job pipeline is broken

America's schools, businesses and cities are failing to help younger workers and underrepresented communities prepare for and land well-paid jobs, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon told Axios in an exclusive interview.

CUNY, University of Michigan mishandled discrimination reports: Education Department

The two universities are the first to reach resolutions among a growing list of colleges and K-12 school districts investigated by the Department of Education over alleged incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia.