Three academics affiliated with U.S. universities have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday morning.

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08.10.2025

Scholarship Providers Say Data-Sharing Confusion Delays Aid

Changes to the FAFSA complicated what data colleges can share and with whom. Scholarship providers say it’s made their jobs harder and delayed awards to students. The Native Forward Scholars Fund, a scholarship provider for Native American students, typically doles out aid to about 1,300 students per year through 40 different scholarship programs. But this year, those funds were delayed; students started fall classes without knowing how much scholarship money was coming their way.

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08.10.2025

Federal Union Sues Trump Admin Over Political OOO

The American Federation of Government Employees, a union representing federal workers, sued the Trump administration Friday, challenging the automated out-of-office email responses it placed on many employees’ email accounts when the government shut down. The message, which was placed on the email accounts of all furloughed staff members without their consent, blamed Democrats in the Senate for causing the shutdown.

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08.10.2025

Why Higher Ed Must Be Intentional With AI

Pilots and playtime won’t prepare you for the disruption already at your doorstep. Walk into almost any office on a campus right now and you’ll hear the same thing: “We’re experimenting with AI.” Someone is drafting social posts in ChatGPT. Someone else is piloting a chatbot for admissions FAQs. Another is tinkering with predictive models in the CRM. These efforts are well intentioned, but nearly three years into the ready availability of generative AI tools, higher ed needs to understand that dabbling isn’t enough anymore.

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3 Academics Share Nobel Prize in Physics

Scholarship Providers Say Data-Sharing Confusion Delays Aid

Federal Union Sues Trump Admin Over Political OOO

Why Higher Ed Must Be Intentional With AI

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