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Elon Musk Survives Royal Society Expulsion Bid

Meeting over revoking fellowship of Tesla and SpaceX boss proves inconclusive, although academy promises to consider “potential further actions.”

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Positive Partnership: A Start-Up–College Liaison Supports Student Success

An innovation campus provides Champlain College students professional development through hands-on learning alongside local business partners. The partnership helps address Vermont’s brain drain and exposes learners to new industries.

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‘Whiplash’ and Dread Inside the Education Department

As career department staff await a delayed executive order and imminent personnel cuts, some say morale is low and tensions are high.

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Draft Order Offers Hints to How Trump Wants to Shut Down the Department

The leaked draft gives higher ed leaders some idea of what could happen next.

Trump signs executive order

Trump to Sign Order Abolishing Education Department Soon, Reports Say

The long-awaited directive comes as the agency is preparing to lay off likely hundreds of employees and just days after Secretary Linda McMahon took the reins.

Tents are set up outside of the library at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Public Largely Disapproves of Student Protests

A new survey finds that most U.S. adults consider acts like disrupting graduation or occupying buildings inappropriate. Experts say their views align with historical trends.

Jayanta Bhattacharya, a man with silver hair and glasses wearing a suit and red tie

NIH Nominee Skirts Questions on Plan to Cut Indirect Cost Rates

At a key hearing Wednesday, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya said he’s committed to providing NIH-funded scientists the resources they need. But he offered few specifics on how he’ll do that amid Trump’s plans to slash the $47 billion agency’s budget.

A Pennsylvania Community College Campus Closes In-Person Programs

Butler County Community College is discontinuing credit-bearing, in-person programs at its LindePointe campus in response to enrollment troubles and the...