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University says it has “concluded its membership in the Association of American Universities” and criticizes the way the group selects its members. Iowa State has been a member since 1958.

Education Department plans to forgive 40,000 student loans immediately and place 3.6 million borrowers three years closer to debt forgiveness. Reaction is mixed.

Jury finds University of Kansas professor guilty in a China Initiative case, but the federal program’s many critics aren’t persuaded.

Professor says Moravian University hired him to be a diversity officer but squeezed him out, slowly and then all at once, for actually doing his job.

But in president’s fiscal 2023 plan, there is no proposal for a free community college program.

An Indigenous scholar alleges that she suffered her supervisor’s abuse for years, only to face retaliation from both him and the institution after she reported him. Little has changed since the Nassar case, she says.

Yale professors and students question why a Chinese professor has been suspended prior to any actual charges against him. The case appears to be connected to the newly defunct federal China Initiative.

South Dakota passes an anti–critical race theory law affecting colleges and universities, while Wisconsin and Florida consider anti-CRT and curricular “transparency” bills.