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Mohsen Mahdawi pauses as he speaks to a Globe reporter in Fairlee, Vt., May 7, 2025. He is a young man with light brown skin, dark curly hair, and a short beard, wearing glasses and a corduroy jacket.

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Columbia Protester Fights Deportation Order

Columbia University graduate student Mohsen Mahdawi is fighting the Trump administration after a judge ordered him deported last week for...

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Former Virginia Tech Rector Sues Over Removal

Former Virginia Tech rector John Rocovich sued Gov. Abigail Spanberger this week, as well as the university and the Board...

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Students Academics

Parents of WPI’s ‘Lost Sons’ Speak Out

Eight students at Worcester Polytechnic Institute died by suicide between 2021 and 2025. The university has since taken numerous steps to bolster suicide prevention efforts, but some parents of the dead want WPI to do more.

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Government Politics & Elections

What 2 Court Orders Reveal About Legal Battle Over Tuition Equity Laws

Laws that allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition have been targeted by the Trump administration. Two recent federal rulings offer a glimpse into how the wider legal battle is playing out.

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Student Success The College Experience

How One College Is Rethinking Free Tuition

Austin Community College pairs free tuition with wraparound supports like childcare and food access, contributing to higher enrollment and improved completion rates.

A male student wearing a UC Davis sweatshirt stands by a window in the daytime, looking at his e-reader and presumably reading digitally delivered course materials.

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DOJ Finds That UC Davis Medical School Considers Race in Admissions

The University of California, Davis, School of Medicine has violated federal anti-discrimination law by considering racial proxies in its admissions...

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The Key Podcast: Accreditation, the Pell Shortfall and Grant Funding

In the latest episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed’s news and analysis podcast, editor in chief Sara Custer and...

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Admissions Traditional-Age

Are Wait Lists Getting Bigger?

New data from Niche aims to illuminate how many students were wait-listed this year, how many were admitted, and how many actually switched from where they’d put a deposit down.