As generative AI tools like ChatGPT become more popular among students, edtech companies such as Chegg and Macmillan are adapting by integrating AI into their platforms to stay competitive. While some students embrace AI for efficiency, others and their professors express concern that overreliance could weaken critical thinking and academic integrity.
The order requires major athletic departments to preserve scholarships for women’s and Olympic sports, while aiming to curb the explosive growth of name, image and likeness deals—known as NIL—that have dramatically transformed athlete compensation in recent years.
The new law brings sweeping changes, including national school vouchers, revised Medicaid and food assistance policies, and major overhauls to federal student loans and college funding.
"The labor market for recent college grads in 2025, so far, is among the most challenging in the last decade, apart from the pandemic period" says Jaison Abel, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In addition to job cuts by federal government, tech companies and consulting firms are also scaling back after a period of rapid growth.
For the first time, more U.S. college students are learning entirely online than attending fully in person, yet most online programs cost just as much or more than traditional ones. Despite the lack of campus expenses, universities cite technology, staffing and support services as reasons for the high price.
All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post on the State Department's website, saying that the additional screening was part of the vetting process to exclude applicants who "pose a threat to U.S. national security."
Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act would penalize colleges with poor student loan outcomes and reward those with strong returns. Experts see potential benefits but warn the plan relies on data the government doesn’t yet have.
The Trump administration is targeting colleges and universities through a multi-pronged strategy that includes cutting federal research funding, restricting international student visas, threatening accreditation and nonprofit status and pushing for steep endowment taxes.
Starting this fall, colleges and universities in the NCAA's top division will be allowed to directly pay athletes for the first time. Payments will be limited by a salary cap set initially at $20.5 million per school.
Veterans' advocates fought for decades to close a loophole with the GI Bill that made veterans a target of for-profit universities. Trump's budget bill has language to bring that loophole back.
Citing a lack of nutrition education, Kennedy said future physicians must be taught how to prevent and treat illness through diet, not just medication.
According to a new budget summary, the Trump administration wants to cut the Education Department's funding by 15%, while largely preserving the two most important federal funding streams to K12 schools.
A judge has issued a preliminary injunction that allows Harvard to continue enrolling international students—halting, at least for now, the Trump administration's efforts to ban the practice.
The State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S. while it prepares to expand the screening of their activity on social media, officials said.
Small, religiously affiliated colleges in rural areas are facing declining enrollment and financial challenges, forcing many to close or merge. Some schools are attempting to avoid this fate by partnering, a strategy other struggling institutions are closely watching.
