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Aerial View of Burton Memorial Tower Amidst Urban Landscape, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Aerial View of Burton Memorial Tower Amidst Urban Landscape, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
University of Iowa spring campus scene in Iowa City showing a statue of the mascot, Herky the Hawk, wearing graduation regalia.
University of Iowa spring campus scene in Iowa City showing a statue of the mascot, Herky the Hawk, wearing graduation regalia.

Iowa’s Civics Center Has to Teach Thousands. It Currently Has One Professor.

June 24, 2026

State lawmakers said only the Center for Intellectual Freedom can offer required U.S. history and government courses at the University of Iowa. It may need to start hiring.

Texas State Capitol Building in Austin.
Texas State Capitol Building in Austin.

Texas’s Higher Ed Overseer Dismisses Dozens of Complaints

June 23, 2026

Republicans created the ombudsman position to investigate alleged violations of their ban on DEI and their gutting of faculty governance bodies.

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey speaks at a lectern, with her hands balled into fists. She is a light-skinned woman with short brown hair, wearing an olive-green jacket over a white top.
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey speaks at a lectern, with her hands balled into fists. She is a light-skinned woman with short brown hair, wearing an olive-green jacket over a white top.
The Education Department building
The Education Department building
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a man with gray hair and extremely ruddy skin, wearing a blue suit and tie.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a man with gray hair and extremely ruddy skin, wearing a blue suit and tie.
A photo illustration of an apple core with a small U.S. flag on a toothpick stabbed through it.
A photo illustration of an apple core with a small U.S. flag on a toothpick stabbed through it.

How GOP State Lawmakers Are Reshaping General Education

June 16, 2026

Legislators are increasingly determining colleges’ core classes, underscoring how higher ed has become a political lightning rod.

An arch on the Kentucky State University campus
An arch on the Kentucky State University campus