Elizabeth Redden

Community colleges, tribal colleges and minority-serving institutions that benefited from multimillion-dollar gifts from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott share how they plan to put the money to use.

A grassroots campaign to restore Cantonese offerings at Stanford University announces a $1 million gift to support classes in the language at the university in perpetuity.

Public colleges in Virginia have begun to lift their COVID-19 vaccination requirement for students after the new Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, issued an advisory opinion Friday concluding that the state’s public universities cannot require vaccination against COVID-19 as a condition fo…

The federal government agrees to undo adverse immigration actions taken against foreign nationals who enrolled in the fake University of Northern New Jersey, established as part of a sting operation.

The Biden administration has taken steps to make the U.S. more attractive to international talent, including expanding eligibility for some foreign STEM students to participate in a popular postgraduation work program.

D’Youville College shifts to a four-day, 32-hour workweek for staff and administrators—with no reduction in pay or benefits.

Lawsuit alleges Chegg misled investors and that the company’s growth was largely attributable to the pandemic and “the facilitation of cheating.” Chegg says the suit is without merit.

Texas A&M University announced plans last week for a committee charged with reviewing a controversial proposal to reorganize the arts and sciences programs at the Qatar campus and relegate arts and science faculty to second-class status relative to engineering faculty. Faculty had raised alarms that…

The U.S. Senate passed legislation last week that would amend language in a veterans’ education act banning the use of commission-based international student recruitment by institutions that receive GI Bill funding. The REMOTE Act was already approved by the House of Representatives and will now go …

Updates to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education were released Wednesday for public review. Slightly more than 3,900 institutions are included in the newest classification, down from about 4,300 in the last update in 2018 and 4,600 in 2015. The classifications, which separa…