UB Staff

How NIL deals could keep HBCUs in running to land top recruits

A collective shift in mindset from a deep pool of successful HBCU alumni may go a long way toward balancing the recruiting landscape.

Sen. Sasse: How to really fix higher ed

The Nebraska senator and former university president says rather than wiping the slate clean on student debt, Washington should take a hard look at reforming a broken system.

‘It’s all legal’: Foreign college athletes cash in at home

On the whole, international athletes are finding the NIL waters tricky to navigate, with mixed messages about what’s OK, even now almost a year after the NCAA lifted restrictions.

Micromanaging higher ed won’t help students

In the latest round of micromanagement musings, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report detailing the practices of so-called online program managers, or OPMs.

Mark Cuban backs free community college, $10,000 in student debt relief

But the billionaire says 'ridiculous tuition fees' must be addressed alongside it. 'We don't want this being a perennial problem.'

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, Miranda Kerr pay art school graduates’ student loans

Spiegel had taken design classes at Otis College of Art & Design during high school before matriculating to Stanford University.

Dillard University graduate gets diploma after giving birth

President Walter Kimbrough personally delivers the diploma to her after students Jada Smith delivers a baby boy.

Sen. Cruz, 84 GOP legislators call on Supreme Court to end discrimination toward Asian-American college applicants

They argue 'no American should be denied educational opportunities because of race,' citing the rejection of applicants at Harvard and North Carolina.

Community college leader says state is not doing enough to help low-income students

We have to figure out how to address the other things that are going on in people’s lives that are barriers for them to go to college or cause them to defer,' she says.

Universities oppose plan for student cap and loans in England

Restricting access to loans and limits on ‘low value’ courses would hit disadvantaged groups, say leaders.

Southern University cheerleader dies after alarming social media post, school says

Arlana Miller, a freshman from Texas studying agriculture, died this week. A rash of student-athlete deaths this year has cast a spotlight on their mental health needs.

13-year-old Minnesota boy to graduate college, begin physics Ph.D. program

Elliott Tanner will soon earn a bachelor's degree in physics with a minor in math from the University of Minnesota. Now, he has his sights set on a Ph.D.

Utah college stands by plans to offer elective pornography studies class despite social media onslaught

Westminster College has experienced an onslaught of social media attention since conservative influencer Candace Owens tweeted about the course.

‘Code-red moment’: Fewer people going to college in Minnesota could reshape higher ed, workforce

The university system has borne the brunt of the state's enrollment decline, falling by 50,000 students over the past decade.

At University of Virginia, Pence decries cancel culture amid protests and praises Zelenskyy

His speech with the Young Americans for Freedom Foundation is part of a series of college visits he's taken in recent months.