Liberty University has reportedly reached a settlement with various plaintiffs—a mix of former students and employees—who sued the evangelical college in Virginia for allegedly mishandling Title IX issues for years. The settlement was made official Wednesday, according to court documents.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Jerry Falwell Jr. has officially resigned from Liberty University, the university confirmed Tuesday. Falwell submitted his resignation letter through an attorney late Monday night after promising and later withdrawing his resignation earlier in the day. Yesterday, the university's Board of Trustees accepted his resignation as chancellor and president and his resignation from its Board of Directors.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
A group of House Republicans asked Friday for a briefing on the Education Department’s purported decision to fine Liberty University $37.5 million over alleged violations of federal campus crime–reporting requirements.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Professional programs get access to more federal dollars under a new law, raising the stakes for next week’s policy negotiation.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Faculty were told just a week ago that the programs would conclude at the end of the fall semester. Next steps for students currently enrolled in the four microcampuses are unclear.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Across the country, student groups and other organizations are working to fill the gaps left behind by campus centers and programs lost to a snowballing anti-DEI movement.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Liberty University is under investigation for Clery Act noncompliance. Fourteen women have sued since July, accusing the university of a long-standing pattern of mishandling sexual assaults.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Education Department fines Michigan State $4.5 million for failing to report sexual violence, including abuse of hundreds of women by former team doctor. The penalties signal toughened enforcement of federal disclosure laws.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Identifying a football culture that protected athletes and officials, the Education Department will fine Penn State U nearly $2.4 million for failing to notify students about assistant coach charged with sex abuse and for failing to disclose other campus crimes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
During the first half of the year, several colleges have announced hiring freezes and budget cuts in response to the Trump administration’s slashing of federal researching funding and general financial instability across the sector. | Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Huston-Tillotson University, a private institution in Texas, will receive the single largest donation ever given to a historically Black college or university: $150 million, paid out over the next decade.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The U.S. Army will continue to support nine ROTC units affiliated with colleges and universities, reversing cuts announced in June. ROTC cadets can continue to enroll at the affected schools, which will now operate as extension units in partnership with another institution.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Facing controversy, President Mark Welsh resigned abruptly Thursday. Now a search for his successor is set to begin amid a recent state trend of hiring lawmakers to lead institutions.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
An uptick in faculty average salary wasn’t enough to recover to 2019-level compensation. The gender pay gap also persists, along with low per-course compensation for part-timers.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Experts offer solutions to prevent doxing and advice about how to respond and keep yourself safe if it happens to you.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Thanks in part to Biden-era regulatory changes, the Trump administration has a powerful set of tools it could use to threaten institutional eligibility for federal student loans, Jonathan Helwink writes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
So far, 18 McNair program grants have been canceled. The Education Department says it will issue awards for the rest of them by the end of the month.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The disruptions in TRIO funding have caused some programs to lay off or furlough staff. The Education Department says it will issue grant awards by Sept. 30.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
According to former Western Michigan provost Julian Vasquez Heilig, provosts are stuck driving change with few, if any, allies, while simultaneously playing crisis manager for the university.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Universities are making exceptions to institutional neutrality policies to issue statements on Charlie Kirk’s death as some take aggressive action against some faculty remarks.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Politico reports that the president called "almost every student" from China a spy.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Some experiments for creating schedules that may lessen the physical and emotional exhaustion so common at the end of the spring semester.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Self-assessment isn't incompatible with educational rigor, it's a necessary ingredient.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
BYU-Idaho and Ensign College will launch truncated bachelor’s degree programs next spring after getting the go-ahead from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
A fresh Student Voice survey finds that more than half of students who aren’t engaged in campus life beyond the classroom are dissatisfied, that campus involvement is linked to ease in making friends and more.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona is calling on colleges to change how they approach student success. He unveiled a new grant program for minority-serving institutions and flamed elite universities.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
A second lawsuit alleges a Stanford University–University of Washington collaboration worked to “censor” Americans’ speech. The new suit takes aim at the researchers themselves.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
National Academies report sees system in disarray and calls for better pay, more mentoring and speedier path to their own labs.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Colleges will have to comply with new certification requirements in order to receive any funding from the NIH, effective immediately.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Financial aid offices have been overworked and understaffed since the pandemic. Now the FAFSA fiasco has put some in crisis mode.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The federal student aid form had just begun to stabilize after a disastrous launch last winter. Then the Trump administration gutted the agency that manages it.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Government investigators dissected the federal aid form’s botched rollout at a congressional hearing Tuesday. Their findings paint a familiar picture of bureaucratic bungling, with some telling new details.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Boston University research center and its founder, Ibram X. Kendi, faced backlash after announcing layoffs. Some employees and students say the controversy overshadows larger questions about the university’s commitment to DEI.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Using the term “gaslighting” is an extreme type of ad hominem argument.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
More than half of public media stations are affiliated with a college, and more host colleges students for career preparation. Cuts to federal funding may reduce internship and practicum experiences for learners.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Texas A&M University professor Russell Taylor Johns was arrested by university police last Wednesday following an allegation that he exposed himself at the University of Texas at Austin earlier this year, KBTX reported.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The State Department has revoked 6,000 student visas so far this year, Fox News reported along with The Washington Post.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The National Institutes of Health’s director ordered employees to “conduct an individualized review of all current and planned research activities,” including active grants and funding opportunity announcements, according to images of a document provided to Inside Higher Ed. The review comes amid concerns that the NIH won’t distribute all of its allocated grant money by the time the federal fiscal year ends Sept. 30, meaning those dollars will return to the U.S. Treasury.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Advocates worry the Trump administration is planning to end a long-standing policy that allows international students to stay in the U.S. until their studies are complete.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
In the first installment of our 2025–26 Student Voice survey series, most students express confidence in their institution—with clear room for improvement, especially when it comes to affordability.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Student advocates and higher ed lobbyists fear the suggested changes could lead to a shortfall in employees to fill high-demand, low-wage jobs.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Higher education groups are suing the federal government at an exceptional scale in an effort to block executive orders, DEI guidance and other policy changes. Here’s the latest on the legal challenges.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The disinvestment from DEI and scientific pipeline programs will mean STEM training gaps will only grow, Tania Fabo writes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Research from NACUFS and FIU finds incoming and current students are looking for greater selection and availability from college food providers.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
As career department staff await a delayed executive order and imminent personnel cuts, some say morale is low and tensions are high.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
With higher education becoming more politicized, it’s poised to play a more prominent role than usual in this year’s presidential and congressional elections. The outcomes will carry huge policy implications.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Stanford University plans to cut 363 jobs this fall, starting at the end of September, due to financial challenges driven by federal policy changes, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The spending plan protects TRIO from Trump’s chopping block and boosts funding for the National Institutes of Health.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
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.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Faculty members feared George Mason’s board would fire its president Friday in the face of ongoing federal investigations they deem politically motivated. The board gave him a raise instead.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Data modeling shows 150,000 fewer students may enroll in U.S. higher education due to visa challenges.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
A new partnership between OpenAI and Instructure will embed generative AI in Canvas. It may make grading easier, but faculty are skeptical it will enhance teaching and learning.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Take these steps to get unstuck, Raquel Y. Salinas writes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
University of Louisiana at Lafayette president Joseph Savoie is retiring suddenly after 17 years in the top job at the public research institution, The Louisiana Illuminator reported. His retirement, announced Wednesday, is effective today.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Colleges from Utah to Indiana and Maine are on track to offer three-year degrees in the near future. But the hesitations that have long plagued the movement haven’t disappeared.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
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.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Howard University would be the only historically Black institution to earn the Carnegie Foundation’s coveted classification, but certainly not the last.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Nearly 60 days into his second term in office, Trump followed through on his campaign promise to dismantle the Department of Education. Now it’s up to Congress to decide if the agency will be abolished entirely.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The university is facing an investigation related to transgender athletes’ participation in sports, and a White House official says the freeze is “just a taste of what could be coming down the pipe.”| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The administration wants Columbia University to make sweeping changes to its discipline and admissions processes. Experts say the demands are overreaching.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The nine-page memo builds on the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programs.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Higher education legal experts shared three key takeaways with Inside Higher Ed.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The secretaries of agriculture and education have issued letters to 16 governors, urging them to rectify the inequities in funding.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Unlike Columbia, the Ivy League institution will not make a direct payment to the government. But it has made a handful of concessions, including handing over admissions data.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Times Higher Education got an earful from conservative students and Republican luminaries alike at this year's Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Free Higher Education News, Jobs, Career Advice and Events for college and university faculty, adjuncts, graduate students, and administrators.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
More than 100 gender equity and civil rights advocacy organizations signed a letter to the incoming Biden administration’s transition team recommending that President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stop enforcement of and move to rescind new regulations that reshaped how colleges respond to reports of sexual misconduct on campus.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
A delay in issuing the regulations likely means that Trump-era rules will stay in place for another academic year.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education forever, some professors are taking their classes back to the pre-internet era.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Lawmakers in Topeka, like those in some other state capitals, used a budget bill to order nonfinancial changes to public higher ed. DEI was the target this time.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
CBOs identify financial threats to their institutions in our annual survey, especially in the near-term. They also hint at confidence in their institution’s ability to adapt.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Biden administration’s proposal includes revisions to how colleges should address cases of sexual assault and extends protections to LGBTQ students. It does not cover athletics, which will be addressed in the future.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Colleges and universities that receive federal funding must be in compliance with new rules by Aug. 14. The regulations rebalance "scales of justice," Education Department says.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Social trust is fraying, zombie bugs are on the loose and human ingenuity never fails to surprise—Scott McLemee rounds up select forthcoming titles from university presses.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The measure now goes to the group’s elected council for approval, disapproval or a vote of the organization’s 10,000-plus full membership.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
In the continuing debate over when, and how, higher education entities should comment on political issues like the Israel-Hamas war, disciplinary associations have received less attention.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The U.S. National Institutes of Health reportedly froze another $250 million in federal research funding for the university, on top of the $400 million already in limbo.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
To address alleged antisemitism, the university will make the changes the Trump administration has demanded, despite legal and academic freedom concerns.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Katherine Franke, a law professor whose interview became the subject of a university investigation, says she’s effectively been terminated.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Universities’ own mistakes helped pave the way for government attacks on academic freedom, Emily Chamlee-Wright writes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Richard Primack offers advice for how to be a happy, healthy and productive researcher year after year.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Amid bans and restrictions on their use, artificial intelligence tools are creating interest among those who see a solution to systemic peer-review woes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Trump administration is upending the student visa bureaucracy to deport foreign students. University officials are struggling to keep up.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Faculty can do a lot to make it harder, and less enticing, for students to use generative AI, Catherine Savini writes.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
An investigation cleared Lincoln University of Missouri’s president of charges he’d bullied an administrator who died by suicide. Some alumni and students object to his return.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Experts say the wave in hiring of Title VI staff mirrors a similar surge in the early 2010s, when institutions changed how they respond to Title IX complaints.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Director of the National Institutes of Health says that capping research journals’ open-access fees will help rein in the $19 billion academic publishing industry and bolster scientific debate.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Higher ed leaders and experts say the Trump administration’s harsh list of demands of Harvard gave it no choice but to fight back. Will other institutions do the same?| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
University leaders said the administration's demands are an attack on its independence. Hours later, billions in grants were frozen.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The Trump administration is following through on its threat to crack down on colleges’ race-based programs, beginning with a small postgraduate recruitment partnership.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action, the share of college applicants who are Black or Hispanic has risen, while the percentage admitted has declined.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
7 strategies I learned from teaching English language learners.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
While we may not agree with what she says, we in academe should defend her right to say it, argues Jonathan Zimmerman.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Essay by law professors at Penn and San Diego asserts that “all cultures are not equal,” decries modern culture, birth control, “inner-city blacks” and “anti-assimilation” Latino immigrants. Many at Penn are demanding the university speak out.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
At Supreme Court hearing on case that could alter college admissions, no big surprises but lots of contentious exchanges -- and anger over Scalia's comments.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
As campuses grapple with financial instability and revise their values under political pressure, one expert warns that the sector could struggle to attract and retain the talent it needs.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Several wealthy universities are walking back construction plans due to financial uncertainty driven by the Trump administration, particularly around federal research funding.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
The threat of LLMs is an invitation to get to the roots, rather than layering on more, more, more.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Obama administration releases final rules to require new payments for many employees. Regulations make clear that higher ed employees considered teachers will continue to be exempt. Postdoc pay could be key issue going forward.| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
Obama administration's proposed rules would extend overtime protections to millions -- including many postdocs and other employees in higher ed. Would the plan provide overdue relief or be a financial disaster for colleges and universities?| Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs