Republican Gov. Kristi Noem opened a hotline for complaints about South Dakota colleges and is calling on the state’s higher education governing board to ban drag shows, Noem announced Friday. In a letter to the South Dakota Board of Regents, Noem said states have allowed “liberal ideologies to poison their colleges and universities.” Read more […]
The UC Board of Regents today voted to establish UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the campus’s first new college in more than 50 years. The college will develop, implement and share high-quality, ethics-oriented and accessible curricula, educating a diverse student body in data science, computing and statistics. It will also […]
University of Michigan will spend $75 million to acquire dozens of Ann Arbor properties, paving the way for the second phase of its Central Campus housing project. The sale, pending a vote by the Board of Regents during its May 18 meeting in Dearborn, would authorize the purchase of 49 private properties north of Elbel […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill Monday prohibiting Florida's public institutions from spending money on initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion, which he believes "promote(s) dangerous political and social activism."
With one state's Senate passing an end to tenure and one university coming under fire for blaming COVID on laying off at least 30 professors, here is the latest picture of the tenure chopping block.
Per the school, the announcement comes following the expansion of academic programs at Canisius, which petitioned the New York State Education Department Board of Regents for the designation. Canisius currently offers 36 master’s programs and advanced certificates. Starting in August, ahead of the Fall 2023 semester, the school will unveil a new branding initiative for […]
Aside from some bittersweet endings to some long, healthy careers, one president of a major university left following two "embarrassing" mishaps, and another didn't make it into his first year before resigning.
Inflation, decreased school endowments and state budget cuts are causing university tuition to rise by up to 9%. As a result, most colleges are choosing to pump up their financial aid packages and scholarship programs to cushion the blow to students.
Following Florida's TikTok ban across its public universities, at least five states have also issued similar restrictions, whether for its state colleges or universities—or both. Tennessee is about to make it six, pending the signature of the governor.
According to court documents filed on Friday in the US District Court Northern District of Texas Amarillo Division, Spectrum WT and student leaders Barrett Bright and Lauren Stovall filed a lawsuit against West Texas A&M University President Walter Wendler, Christopher Thomas, the vice president for student affairs at the university, Texas A&M University System Chancellor […]
