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The Growing Diversity of Community College Trustees
Since the 1990s, more women, people of color and community college graduates have become members of governing boards at two-year colleges.
Mistaken Anti-DEI Guidance Stokes Research Fears in the Age of Trump
Scholars were outraged after The Excellence in Education Journal told authors to make sure their work didn’t violate Trump’s anti-DEI order. Days later, the journal’s editor-in-chief retracted the guidance and said it was sent in error.
For One Tribal College, $5M Gift Is Transformative
Little Priest Tribal College in Nebraska is the latest higher education institution to receive a donation from MacKenzie Scott. It comes after Trump sought to drastically cut funding to tribal colleges, which rely on federal money to survive.
Why Hackers Are Targeting the Ivy League
Recent cyberattacks at prominent institutions show how vulnerable higher education systems are and why they struggle to defend themselves.
AI Likely Driving Surge in Letters to the Editor
In the three years since large language models went mainstream, the number of new authors publishing a high volume of letters to the editor in scientific journals has also surged. Researchers say there’s likely a link—and it exposes cracks in academia’s publish-or-perish culture.