Less than two weeks into President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s already testing the limits of executive power. As one of his first actions in office, he wielded that power to resume Americans’ access to TikTok—the

This is one of those times I’m glad I’m in charge of only myself. I can’t imagine the pressure of leading an organization—like a higher ed institution—that is dependent on support from the federal government for

As an undergraduate student, Lisa MacLeod wasn’t sure where her career path would take her. She majored in English literature and international relations with the aspirations of being a journalist or a State Department staffer and

Institutional neutrality at universities is having its moment in the aftermath of a year of nationwide campus protests over the Israel-Gaza war. The list of universities that have adopted neutrality has grown over the course of

An editor or reviewer can have an outsize impact on the career of a scholar, particularly in the early stages. The stakes can be high for an author. A negative review or edit can set back

Some of President Donald Trump’s executive orders ban funding to diversity, equity and inclusion programs or activities as well as the promotion of so-called gender ideology. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The Trump administration on Wednesday walked back

In the first few days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST, for short) disappeared from government websites. It was an interactive

Some classes at Tufts University were canceled Monday and Tuesday as dozens of full-time lecturers carried out a two-day strike, The Boston Globe reported Monday. According to SEIU Local 509, 94 percent of the 121 full-time

Martin University, the only predominantly Black institution in Indiana, started receiving state funding two years ago—a welcome $5 million cash influx for the enrollment-starved private university. But this year, Republican governor Mike Braun left the university

After being fired twice, first from his chancellor post and then from his tenured faculty role at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, Joe Gow is suing in an effort to return to the classroom,

Approaching a critical vote on its accreditation status next month, Saint Augustine’s University has made controversial moves in recent months to stabilize its shaky financial position, but so far none have paid off, putting the beleaguered

Katherine Franke, formerly a law professor at Columbia University, is just the latest of many academics who have found themselves in hot water because of something they said outside the classroom. Others have been fired or

Undergraduates’ level of trust in their institution has been positively linked to individual student outcomes, as well as the broader institutional culture and reputation. So trust matters. And a new analysis of data from Inside Higher

Parental rights have emerged as a central battleground in the culture wars, debated in school board meetings, courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country. As conflicts intensify over what children should be taught, how medical decisions

President Trump’s plan to temporarily freeze federal grants and loans set off a wave of confusion and concerns across higher ed Tuesday. But just minutes before it was set to take effect, a federal judge blocked

On Monday, the National Science Foundation confirmed to Inside Higher Ed that it has canceled all the grant application review meetings it had scheduled this week. The decision came just days after President Donald Trump issued

Harvard University is facing backlash for its decision to incorporate the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism, a polarizing definition that some believe chills political speech opposing Israel’s government, into the institution’s nondiscrimination policy. The

The University of Southern California and the Pac-12 Conference want a National Labor Relations Board judge to dismiss a complaint from some football and basketball players who argued that they should have been classified as employees.

The Georgia Board of Regents selected Portia Holmes Shields to lead Albany State University in 1996. She was the first female president of the historically Black university. I was a junior and vice president of the

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to pause its review of former president Joe Biden’s borrower-defense regulations, court filings show. If it took effect, the regulation—which was finalized in October 2022—would forgive the student

A May 2024 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and Generation Lab found 35 percent of first-generation students have had no experience with their college’s career center and its staff, compared to 32 percent of

When the King’s College in New York shut down in summer 2023, its leadership said the cancellation of fall classes and termination of faculty and staff did not mean permanent closure. Now its Board of Trustees

I have now been teaching at Duke University for 20 years. I have been through all kinds of teaching fads—active learning, team-based learning, alternative grading, service learning, etc. You might assume that I have become a

Developmental education has come under scrutiny for delaying students’ academic attainment and overall degree progression. While the purpose of remedial courses is to prepare learners to succeed in more difficult courses, it can produce the opposite

Ira Gooding is well-known and highly respected within our digital and online learning community. At Johns Hopkins University, Ira serves in the provost’s office as a special adviser for digital initiatives, and he is the assistant

A former Jackson State University Faculty Senate president is suing the institution, its president and the statewide public university system board, alleging wrongful termination. Dawn McLin, who was a tenured associate professor in the psychology department,

Texas A&M University is planning to pause undergraduate enrollment growth for the next five years, The Battalion reported. The university’s student body has grown by 30 percent over the last decade, which has stressed the institution’s

Harvard Medical School canceled a lecture last week over concerns that plans for patients from the Gaza Strip to speak would give a one-sided view of the Israel-Hamas war, The Boston Globe reported. “In the days

The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education touts its proximity to prestigious universities: Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale—even the University of Oxford. It’s right there on its website: “Established in 2012 as an independent, nonpartisan,

As Republicans on Capitol Hill look to potentially spend billions on mass deportations, tax cuts and other Trump administration priorities, the House GOP is hunting for ways to save money elsewhere. But some of the slashes

As graduate students and postdocs pursue careers beyond the tenure track, they are looking for opportunities to develop skills for a variety of posts within the research ecosystem, in areas including research proposal development, student support,

“Chaos is the goal,” Mike Gavin, president of Delta College in Michigan, told a Zoom room full of higher ed professionals on a January afternoon. “These external forces are trying to cause chaos to distract us