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Gov. Youngkin requests to review course syllabi at George Mason, Virginia Commonwealth universities

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin wanted to review syllabi of courses that fulfill George Mason University’s upcoming Just Societies core curriculum requirement and Virginia Commonwealth University’s racial...

Vanderbilt to establish a college dedicated to computing, AI and data science

Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs C. Cybele Raver said a dedicated college will enable Vanderbilt to keep making groundbreaking discoveries at the...

3 Strategies to Protect Your Business Office Against Fraud

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 30th at 2 pm ET

In this 20-minute UB Ed Talk, a financial fraud and security expert will outline three actionable strategies business offices should implement now to bolster their fraud prevention efforts.  

In an ‘unforced error,’ the feds just botched financial aid data for roughly 200K students

The U.S. Department of Education sent hundreds of thousands of inaccurate student financial aid assessments to colleges in recent weeks, it acknowledged Friday—an error it...

UW’s $340 million finance upgrade is still struggling, despite progress

On the plus side, the backlog of unpaid vendor invoices snarled by Workday, UW’s new “enterprise” software platform, has been cut from $90 million...

University president is cleared of bullying in Black academic’s suicide

The president of Lincoln University in Missouri will remain in his position, the institution decided after an investigation into the suicide of a Black...

Lawmakers, experts decry ongoing COVID-19 shot mandates at 48 colleges

The list of colleges requiring the shot, which is maintained by the No College Mandates organization, includes mostly private colleges, with a few prominent exceptions such as Johns Hopkins University.

Two neighboring northwest Ohio universities to merge

The two universities will keep their separate religious affiliations, and their sports teams remain separate.

‘I’m devastated’: Hundreds of former fosters may lose state financial aid for college

Nia Dyer is one of about 645 students receiving state aid to pay for college through the Fostering Independence Grant program—the first of its kind in the nation to cover not only tuition but full cost of attendance of college for Minnesotans who have been in foster care.

USF announces plan to create Florida’s first AI, cybersecurity college

The University of South Florida announced plans Thursday to launch the first college of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity in the state. A USF news release...

Arizona State University professor sues school over DEI training: ‘simply racism’

A longtime professor at Arizona State University (ASU) sued the university on Tuesday over a mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) course for faculty,...

University Of Findlay and Bluffton University pursuing merger

Findlay and Bluffton would become one higher education community on two campuses. The decision was made by votes of each institution’s Board of Trustees....

Georgia State University students continue to express safety concerns near campus

On Monday night, shots were fired again near campus for the third time in the span of a month. Students told 11Alive they thought the recently shut...

Kentucky House votes to defund DEI offices at public universities

In Kentucky, the House-passed version would ban race-based scholarships and defund DEI offices and staff positions. It would prohibit the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary...

Opinion | Why it’s smart for universities to bring back the SAT requirement

The pause in testing gave colleges a chance to study the issue more closely. They found that SAT scores were extremely effective at predicting whether...