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So far, UW System universities have received 133,484 applications from new freshmen for fall 2021, about 29 percent higher than at the same point in 2020 and 33 percent higher than 2019.

3.5% increase proposed at the University of Iowa and Iowa State; 1.5% at the University of Northern Iowa.

More than 60 years ago, Marion Gerald Hood was rejected from a medical school because of his race. This week, the school apologized.

Dartmouth College is providing up to $1 million to encourage students to move off campus to ease an on-campus housing crunch this fall.

The justices voted 9-0 to affirm lower court rulings that prevented the NCAA from restricting payments to athletes for items such as musical instruments or as compensation for internships.

Alabama A&M University, Howard University, Morgan State University, and Prairie View A&M University will get the grants, which are part of the company's broader $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative launched in June 2020.

Leaders in higher education from Florida and Louisiana on Thursday related how colleges coped with a rough year of online learning and vaccine distribution amid the pandemic, during a hearing before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee.

New state laws are scheduled to take effect on July 1, but there are vanishingly low expectations for a deal in Washington in the coming days.



A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a former University of Tennessee researcher charged with hiding his relationship with a Chinese university while receiving research grants from the federal government.