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Lutnick: Trump Wants Harvard to Build Vocational School as Part of Settlement

While President Trump has proposed slashing the federal workforce development budget, a potential settlement between Harvard University and the Trump...
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‘Weaponizing Antisemitism’: Campus Speech Under Siege

Provosts agree antisemitism in higher education is a problem, but they largely object to recent federal investigations into campus speech climates—which experts warn could hurt, not help, Jewish students.

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Scaling Up: Expanding Basic Needs Support for Students

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts’ basic needs pantry started as a student project. Now it’s a campuswide intervention for all types of students.

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Staff Members Fired, Grad Student Punished for Cheering Charlie Kirk’s Death

Two administrators are now out of a job and a graduate student lost an internship after making comments online that...
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GAO Raises Concern About Future FAFSAs

The Education Department is on track to release the 2026–27 Free Application for Federal Student Aid by Oct. 1, but...
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HBCUs Lock Down in Response to ‘Terroristic’ Threats

At least seven historically Black institutions in five states investigated threats of violence, evoking memories of the wave of bomb threats that shook HBCUs in 2022.

Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025.

Charlie Kirk Killing Feeds Fears for Higher Ed’s Future

The provocateur supercharged the right’s depiction of campuses as intolerant, leftist spaces. Then he was killed on one while exercising free speech and debating students.

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Commerce Secretary Says He Wants Half of University Patent Money

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Axios he wants the federal government to get half the dollars generated from patents that...