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Columbia University, seen in June 2025, is one of the schools that made a deal with the Trump administration last year in order to avoid losing funding. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Universities survived Trump’s 2025 funding freeze, but the money still isn’t flowing to researchers

The Trump administration is leaning away from dramatic funding cuts and settlements with universities, and more toward standard tactics to try to limit funding.
Generative AI looms widely in higher education. Can focusing on social interactions prepare students well for an AI-infused workplace? Fuse via Getty Images

How I rehumanize the college classroom for the AI‑augmented age

A writer instructor recognizes the role of AI on campus, while elevating social connection and humanity into the college experience.
Members of the Black Student Union at Kutztown University in Kutztown, Pa., march in a protest in April 2015. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Black student unions are under pressure – here’s what they do and how they help Black students find community

Black student unions date back to the late 1960s, and were formed so Black students could find community, and also make their schools more responsive to their needs.
Work-study students often still have unmet financial needs, even after their 15- to 20-hour-per-week jobs fill in some of the gaps. champpix/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Trump’s proposed cuts to work study threaten to upend a widely supported program that helps students offset college costs

Federal work study creates opportunities for students and universities alike. But the program’s challenges go beyond the potential government funding cuts.
An executive order seeks to remove ‘discriminatory ideology’ in universities. Critics contend it politicizes the accreditation process. Abraham Gonzalez Fernandez via Getty Images

How proposed changes to higher education accreditation could impact campus diversity efforts

President Trump wants to change the higher education accreditation process by asking accreditors to root out ‘ideological bias’ and roll back DEI initiatives.
Teachers Alia Hussein, left, and Efrat Toval give a lesson on identity, in Hebrew and Arabic, to third grade students in the Hand in Hand School in Jerusalem. Craig Stennett/Getty Images

This course examines Israeli school division to better understand education policy – and society – in the US

Israel’s divided education system – based on nationality and religious observance – serves as a test case for exploring controversial education policies in America.
Philadelphia’s public high schools face a trade-off between emphasizing academic and technical skills. Hill Street Studios/DigitalVision Collection via Getty Images

Most Philly public school students have college ambitions − but their level of preparation depends on which high school they attend

A sociologist and former high school math teacher found that Philadelphia students face starkly different expectations for college depending on what type of school they attend.
Columbia University President Nemat Shafik testifies before the House Committee on Education & the Workforce during an April 17, 2024, hearing on antisemitism on campus. Alex Wong for Getty Images

Columbia president holds her own under congressional grilling over campus antisemitism that felled the leaders of Harvard and Penn

A rhetoric scholar says Columbia University President Nemat Shafik fared much better than her predecessors at a hearing about how her school was handling antisemitism on campus.
Harvard President Claudine Gay, University of Pennsylvania then-President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally Kornbluth testify before Congress on Dec. 5, 2023. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Why university presidents find it hard to punish advocating genocide − college free speech codes are both more and less protective than the First Amendment

University codes of conduct support their mission to educate. But it’s not easy to balance those codes with the values of free speech, as the resignation of a prominent university president shows.

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