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AG: Searches Were About Vandalism of Michigan Leaders’ Homes
The Michigan attorney general’s office revealed Thursday that the police searches Wednesday in Ann Arbor, Canton and Ypsilanti were part of a yearlong investigation into “evidently coordinated” vandalism, including pro-Palestine graffiti and in some cases shattered glass at the homes of the University of
Judge Delays Antitrust Settlement Approval Over Roster Limits
The NCAA and attorneys for plaintiff student athletes have 14 days to change the roster limit terms in the House v. NCAA settlement or the judge will deny its approval. This is the latest ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken in the landmark $2.8 billion antitrust case that is set to transform college athletics and compensation for student athletes.
AI Research Summaries “Exaggerate Findings,” Study Warns
Bots’ tendency to display “unwarranted confidence” and fixate on “pink elephants” is particularly risky in medical research, according to a new paper. AI tools overhype research findings far more often than humans, with a study suggesting the newest bots are the worst offenders—particularly when they are specifically instructed not to exaggerate. Dutch and British researchers have found that AI summaries of scientific papers are much more likely than the original authors or expert reviewers to “overgeneralize” the results.
New Carnegie Classification Focuses on Student Success
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debut a new classification system focused on student success. As widespread public skepticism about the value of a degree persists, a new institutional classification system recognizes colleges and universities that afford all types of students the opportunity to access an education and earn competitive wages thereafter.
Where Is Higher Ed Now and Where Is It Going? The Key
In the latest episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, two economists highlight opportunities that college and universities can grab to improve engagement with their local communities, create greater access for first-generation students and increase transparency around pricing.
Education Department’s Anti-DEI Guidance Blocked
Several colleges scrubbed their campuses and websites of DEI-related language and shuttered offices in order to comply with the letter's sweeping demands. The Education Department won’t be able to enforce its guidance that declared all race-based programming and activities illegal following two court orders Thursday.
Market Downturn Hurts College Seniors’ Career Optimism
Data from NACE and Handshake points to a competitive job market for the Class of 2025, with lower hiring in federal and tech roles. A fall 2024 survey of the Class of 2025 found seniors were less than optimistic about their futures after graduation due to a competitive job market. Just weeks before commencement, new data from Handshake finds the sentiment remains true, with 56 percent of graduating students reporting feeling “very” or “somewhat” pessimistic about their careers.
International Student Lawsuits Result in Restored SEVIS Records
Attorneys argue that the Department of Homeland Security shirked due process and exceeded its authority in targeting international students. At least 290 international students or recent graduates who had their Student and Exchange Visitor Information System records terminated by the federal government are fighting that decision across 65 lawsuits. They are hoping to get those terminations reversed and return to their work or studies, and many have been successful, securing at least a temporary reprieve.
U Rochester Ph.D. Students Strike for a Non-NLRB Election
The institution backed out of plans to host a vote and suggested graduate workers pursue the federally controlled process instead. That’s risky in the Trump era. University of Rochester Ph.D. student workers began striking this week to pressure the institution to agree to what they call a “fair union election.” And for the process to be fair, they say, it can’t be handled by the Trump-era National Labor Relations Board. “We don’t see any kind of path through the NLRB at present,” said George Elkind, a Ph.D. student on the proposed UR Graduate Labor Union’s organizing committee.
Broward College Trustees Exert Control Over Foundation Board
The Broward College Board of Trustees granted itself more power over the institution’s foundation board earlier this year. Now trustees are wielding it. The trustees revamped the foundation's board and argue the organization is in need of greater financial oversight. Tensions are brewing between the Broward College Board of Trustees and the college’s foundation as the board exercises more control over who runs the foundation, arguing the foundation lacks oversight and the college has financially suffered for it.
McMahon Defends Harvard Cuts, Faces Grilling During CNBC Interview
Education Secretary Linda McMahon defended the Trump administration’s crackdown on Harvard University and other colleges during a contentious appearance Tuesday on CNBC’s Squawk Box as she faced questions about the government’s decision to freeze universities’ federal funding.
Limestone University Pulls Back From Brink of Closure
Limestone University’s board was set to decide whether to close or go online Tuesday. Instead the university announced a possible financial lifeline was in the works. Limestone University will live on—at least for now—after the Board of Trustees punted on a decision Tuesday to either close the institution or shift entirely online. Instead, university officials announced that a “possible funding source” had surfaced.
Texas State Helps Students Bounce Back From 2.0 GPA
Texas State University provides personalized support to help students bounce back from academic probation. As more colleges and universities consider initiatives, processes and policies to create a more student-focused campus, they are zeroing in on two areas of concern: academic probation and academic recovery. A growing body of research highlights the way negative life experiences and competing priorities impact students’ academic achievement, sometimes exerting a stronger influence than prior academic preparation.
No NIH Grants for Colleges With DEI Programs or Israel Boycotts
Colleges will have to comply with new certification requirements in order to receive any funding from the NIH, effective immediately. If colleges and universities want to receive funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), they’ll have to certify that they don’t operate any diversity, equity, inclusion or accessibility programs that violate federal antidiscrimination laws, under a new NIH policy announced Monday.
Trump’s Latest Executive Orders Target Accreditation
The seven orders address a range of priorities for the president, including cracking down on foreign gifts to colleges and supporting HBCUs. But accreditation reform is Trump’s “secret weapon.” President Donald Trump took aim at college accreditors in an executive order signed Wednesday that targets two accrediting agencies for investigation and suggests others could lose federal recognition altogether.
Trump Plans to Give Two Commencement Speeches
President Donald Trump will serve as the commencement speaker at both the University of Alabama and the United States Military Academy, he announced on Truth Social. “I have agreed to do the Commencement Address at two really GREAT places … Stay tuned for times and dates!!!” he wrote.
Union: Police Raids Targeted Michigan Palestine Activists
The state attorney general’s office says it is investigating “multi-jurisdictional acts of vandalism,” but further details are sparse. The grad workers’ union claims “repression.” Police raided five homes connected to University of Michigan pro-Palestinian activists on Wednesday, according to the university’s graduate student union. A spokesperson for the state’s attorney general told Inside Higher Ed the investigation is into “multi-jurisdictional acts of vandalism” but didn’t provide many more details.
NSF Terminates Grants Focused on DEI or Misinformation
After a change in priorities, NSF says it won’t fund programs that promote DEI or combat misinformation, among others. The National Science Foundation is changing its priorities and cutting hundreds of grants in order to get in line with the Trump administration’s crusade against diversity, equity and inclusion.
Presidents Condemn “Unprecedented Government Overreach”
Scores of college, university and scholarly society leaders condemned “with one voice” the “unprecedented government overreach and political interference now endangering American higher education” via a statement released today by the American Association of Colleges and Universities.
Will Trump Follow the Law in Punishing Harvard?
The Trump administration has threatened to strip Harvard of its ability to host international students and is reportedly eyeing its tax-exempt status. But the legal path to do so is lengthy. In the days since Harvard University rejected the Trump administration’s demands, with billions in funding at risk, the U.S. president has weaponized multiple federal agencies to exert additional pressure on the university.
The Precedent Higher Ed Can’t Afford to Set (opinion)
The mere prospect of a consent decree at Columbia is a flashing warning sign for trustees at colleges across the country, Ross Mugler writes. American higher education stands at a critical juncture following the emergence of reports that the Department of Justice is seeking a consent decree with Columbia University.
Medical Journals Now Reportedly Under Government Scrutiny
The Trump administration now appears to be targeting medical journals, questioning at least three different publications about how they represent “competing viewpoints” and assess the influence of funding organizations like the National Institutes of Health on submitted papers, MedPage Today reported.
Featured Gig: Director of Content and Product Strategy at UM
Four questions for Sarah Dysart on this role at Michigan’s Center for Academic Innovation. For my newest “Featured Gig” installment, I want to highlight the search for a director of content and product strategy at the Center for Academic Innovation at the University of Michigan. Sarah Dysart, chief learning officer at CAI, agreed to answer my questions about the role.
Students Lose Food Benefits Between High School and College
Fewer than half of low-income students retain their state food benefits in the transition from high school to college or the workforce, even though they might still be eligible, according to a new report from the California Policy Lab, a nonpartisan research group affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley, and UCLA.
HBCUs Establish Credit for Prior Learning Models
Four administrators from historically Black institutions across the country share promising practices for implementing credit for prior learning policies. Adult learners often come to higher education with a variety of skills and experiences that aren’t directly reflected in their academic transcripts. Credit for prior learning (CPL) is one way colleges and universities can recognize education outside of the classroom and expedite a student’s degree completion.
The Laws Behind Trump’s Student Visa Terminations
The Student and Exchange Visitor Information System has served as a repository for international student data for over 20 years. Now it’s under attack by the Trump administration. Colleges and universities across the U.S. have announced that over the past month, at least 1,680 international students—but likely thousands more—have had their statuses terminated in SEVIS, a digital records system of international students.
California and Oregon Undocumented Students Barred From TRIO
Undocumented students in the two states can’t participate in federal programs that support underserved students anymore, depriving them of valuable services. A recent policy shift barring undocumented students from federal college prep and persistence programs got little attention amid rapid-fire federal policy changes. But it’s one that experts and college administrators argue could have significant repercussions for students’ academic outcomes.
Debt Collection on Defaulted Student Loans to Restart in May
About 25 percent of all borrowers have or will default on their student loans in the next few months, and another 35 percent are at least 60 days past due. The Education Department will resume collecting on defaulted student loans early next month, restarting a system that’s been on hold since spring 2020, the agency announced Monday.
Trump Admin Cuts Halt Medical Research, Deaf Ed Training
The federal government says it has cut or frozen billions of dollars’ worth of grants and contracts to high-profile universities, ending potentially lifesaving studies and critically needed training, according to the researchers. On March 14, a week after the Trump administration said it was slashing roughly $400 million in grants and contracts to Columbia University, Jeanine D’Armiento received an email from Columbia telling her that two of her grants had been canceled. D’Armiento, a professor of medicine in anesthesiology, was using the two National Institutes of Health awards to study people with rare diseases, she said. Her research appears to have nothing to do with diversity, equity and inclusion or “gender ideology”—broad concepts that the federal government had been targeting before.
Five Key Takeaways From Tracking Student Visa Revocations
More than 1,500 students from nearly 250 colleges have had their visas revoked, but who they are—and why they’ve been targeted—is still largely unknown. On April 7, amid reports that the federal government was detaining international students and revoking their visas, Inside Higher Ed began collecting and cross-checking data in an effort to track exactly how many students were affected—and at which institutions.
Harvard Sues the Trump Administration
After a weeks-long standoff with the federal government over alleged antisemitism on campus, Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Monday over the $2.2 billion federal funding freeze enacted after the private institution rejected a far-reaching slate of reforms last week.
Half of Colleges Don’t Grant Students Access to Gen AI Tools
Half of chief technology officers say their institution doesn’t grant students access to generative AI tools. How does your college compare? Transformative. Disruptive. Game-changing. That’s how many experts continue to refer, without hyperbole, to generative AI’s impact on higher education. Yet more than two years after generative AI went mainstream, half of chief technology officers report that their college or university isn’t granting students institutional access to generative AI tools, which are often gratis and more sophisticated and secure than what’s otherwise available to students.
How Harvard Is Standing Up to Trump Means Everything
Contrasts between Harvard and Columbia. When it comes to fighting the current authoritarian threats coming out of the Trump administration, it’s important to remember that the symbol is the substance. Frankly, this is always true of politics generally, but it’s more true and more important than ever in this moment. We have an object example of this principle at work presently in the different responses from Harvard and Columbia when it comes to the threats to funding and demand for control by the Trump administration.