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Weekly Wisdom | What Is Happening Across Higher Ed

The sector is navigating significant change—and leadership requires clarity.

What Lies Behind the Success—or Failure—of International Branch Campuses?

Find out what underpins success when setting up and developing a branch campus overseas and why financial returns are not a good motivation, from an academic who helped establish and later lead one such project.

Leon Botstein, a bald white man with round glasses and wearing a bow tie, pictured at an event

Bard Opens Investigation Into Botstein’s Ties to Epstein

Bard College has opened an “independent review” into President Leon Botstein’s connection to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the Board...
Senator Elizabeth Warren, a light-skinned woman with short blond hair, wearing a purple jacket.

Senate Dems Ask GAO to Investigate ED Dismantling

As Education Department staff working on higher education grant programs are starting to move their work to the Department of...
An illustration of a bunch of diplomas stuffed into a trash can in the shape of the state of Indiana. The background has a map of the United States and the University of Indiana overlaid in it.

U.S. Plans to Stop Funding Low-Earning Degrees. Indiana May Just End Them.

Congress’s new earnings test will stop students from receiving federal aid for some programs. A Hoosier State bill goes further, putting those degrees on the chopping block.

A tennis player competes at the 2025 Division I men's NCAA tennis championship.

State Bills Aim to Limit Scholarships for International Students

Legislators sponsoring the bills in in Idaho and Ohio argue that the majority of taxpayer-funded athletic aid should be set aside for local students.

Two Hispanic female students in graduation cap and gown adjusting the mortarboard of a Black male student in preparation for a graduation ceremony on a college campus.

Rethinking First-Generation Labels

New Common App research shows that broad first- and continuing-generation labels can mask meaningful differences in student success.

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UT San Antonio Folds Race and Gender Studies Department

The University of Texas at San Antonio is dissolving its Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The San...