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Anonymous Alum Donates $51M to Smith College
Smith College has received a $51 million gift from an anonymous alumna, the Massachusetts women’s college announced Thursday. It is...
‘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.
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 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.
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...
New Presidents: Boston College, Florida Atlantic, Franklin & Marshall, WVU and More
Stacy Bartlett, currently the chief of staff at Point University in Georgia, will become the institution’s president, effective July 1...
NEA Sues Trump Administration to Block DEI Guidance
Legal challenges to the Education Department’s guidance ordering colleges to rescind all race-based programming are piling up. A week after...
FIRE, LGBTQ Student Group Sue Texas A&M Over Drag Show Ban
Students at Texas A&M University are suing their college to block a new policy from the Texas A&M University system...