Whether by providing financial aid or direct admission, high school students are getting excited about these initiatives easing their entry into college.
With geopolitical tensions mounting, the Canadian government announced a new security system for university research that aims to prevent tech secrets leaking to key Chinese, Russian or Iranian research institutions. The new policy–the most detailed security procedures yet made public in the West–would bar federal Canadian funding for "sensitive" research projects linked to any of […]
The 'Artificial Intelligence Literacy Act' would provide grants to help develop interdisciplinary programs with nontraditional learners in mind and cultivate hands-on lab opportunities, all in order to facilitate a new wave of digital education.
On Tuesday afternoon, Gov. Ron DeSantis' office sent out a news release touting an emergency order signed by university system chancellor Ray Rodrigues. The order, which points to an increase in antisemitic instances nationwide, waives credit requirements and application deadlines for transfer students. It also grants universities the ability to waive out-of-state tuition and fees. It says […]
At Cabrillo College near Santa Cruz, Nikia Chaney stands out. You can spot her bright pink hair from a distance. She's also the only Black professor out of the community college's 165 tenured or tenure-track faculty. Faculty diversity has increased slightly over the past 15 years, but a report the chancellor's office issued in November acknowledged that […]
The Education Department implemented a "soft launch" of the form on its website last week, but glitches, crashes, and extremely limited available windows have bled past its official launch date and into the new year, and it's yet unclear how long they will last.
Montana State University was awarded a $26.7 million grant from the U.S. Air Force to support moving quantum technology applications from concept to market — and potentially, space. "People should know that this is the second quantum revolution," said Yves Idzerda, physicist and dean of MSU's College of Letters and Sciences and principal investigator for […]
As the U.S. higher education fights to keep its revenue afloat, recruitment strategies by other countries to attract their own robust cohorts of international students pose a challenge.
Dozens of prospective graduate students recently received premature messages of acceptance from Northeastern University in Boston, officials confirmed. According to a university spokesperson, the application process is ongoing, and applicants are not expected to be notified of decisions until January. This is the second consecutive year that the university has sent erroneous acceptance letters to […]
