4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (666+ words) In a 10-to-6 vote, the council scrapped a long-standing requirement that law schools “demonstrate by concrete action a commitment to diversity and inclusion.” Removing Standard 206 means law schools can no longer be required to prioritize diversity in order to remain…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1098+ words) Slated to take place at a special meeting Sept. 8, the vote comes just two weeks after the Trump administration recommended denying the accreditation council federal recognition. After years of heated debate, the American Bar Association’s accreditation council is scheduled to…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (190+ words) Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture. By Dominique J. Baker Illustration by Justin Morrison / Inside Higher Ed The ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the government will just ask…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (106+ words) Students know what college is for. Many of the sector’s critics do not. A student paused before she answered. I had posed a simple question to a group of students: Ten years from now, how would you want to describe…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (243+ words) One higher ed experts says the policy change adds to mounting concerns about the politicization of government-funded research under President Trump. The Department of Commerce has scrubbed part of its scientific-integrity policy that banned political interference with its agencies’ research…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (234+ words) The settlement revolves around grants the university received from NASA and the NSF between November 2012 and August 2023. Megan Jelinger/AFP via Getty Images Ohio State University will pay the government $2.1 million to resolve allegations that it failed to disclose federally…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (778+ words) Generations College is adding bachelor’s degrees, betting that students who might otherwise stop after an associate degree will keep going. Generations College, a private nonprofit two-year institution in Chicago, will begin offering four bachelor’s degree programs this fall. Kimberly Newson…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (623+ words) Duke is the latest university to announce plans to shut off access to alumni email addresses amid rising technology costs and cybersecurity threats. But scores of alumni feel betrayed by their alma mater, which promised the service for a lifetime....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (839+ words) The administration accused accreditors of neglecting their “positions of public trust.” The Trump administration’s sweeping plan to reshape how accreditors oversee colleges and universities was released for public comment last week, prompting a flurry of consternation about the future of…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (903+ words) A new book edited by former Columbia University President Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago legal scholar Geoffrey Stone discusses how university autonomy is threatened by the Trump administration and what it might take to save it. Bollinger and Stone…...