In the United States, HBCUs educate 1.5% of all university students - yet receive only 0.9% of federal research and development (R&D) funding. Data reported in 2024 show combined HBCU endowment assets around $100,000 per student. By contrast, the ten wealthiest US universities received $2 million to $7 million per student in 2023.
Many have witnessed the challenges within their neighborhoods firsthand, but for some, this need becomes a personal mission. That's precisely what Chef Aarón Sánchez has embraced through his work with Emeril Lagasse Foundation. As a chef and restaurant owner, Aarón launched a scholarship program to support young aspiring chefs pursuing formal culinary education-opening doors to mentorship, professional training, and the opportunity to transform passion into long-term careers.
"The committee did determine that the two works highlighted last year contained select portions of text previously published by another author in the introductory sections. In a separate text, a discrepancy in assignment of authorship was made. However, President Pines was not found responsible for the inclusion of such text in any of the three works, nor was he found responsible for scholarly misconduct of any kind," College Park and system officials announced last week.
At the Center for Academic Innovation, my role as the inaugural Chief Education Solutions Officer (or CESO) is to open a new learning innovation horizon for the Center and help U-M achieve its next tier of educational impact. I do this by creating sustainable strategic partnerships that enable us to serve workforce and talent development needs of external organizations.
A senior Texas A&M University System official testing a new artificial intelligence tool this fall asked it to find how many courses discuss feminism at one of its regional universities. Each time she asked in a slightly different way, she got a different number. "Either the tool is learning from my previous queries," Texas A&M system's chief strategy officer Korry Castillo told colleagues in an email, "or we need to fine tune our requests to get the best results."
"The past 24 hours really have been unimaginable," she said in a letter to the Ivy League university's greater community Sunday morning, adding that most of the injured students remain hospitalized in stable condition. The shooting began just after 4 p.m. at the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building. The Providence, Rhode Island, campus was locked down until Sunday morning when local law enforcement officials ended the order,
The Atlantic recently ran an article, Accommodation Nation, on this issue. Their research found that at schools such as Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Stanford, that figure is 38 percent of undergraduates. Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago, the number of students with accommodations has more than tripled over the past eight years, and at UC Berkeley, it has nearly quintupled over the past 15 years.
Alabama coach Kalen DeBoer reaffirmed his commitment to the program ahead of the College Football Playoff, saying Sunday that he has "no interest" in discussing other job opportunities. "I have not spoken and have no interest in speaking with anyone else about any other job," DeBoer said in a statement on X released through Yea Alabama, the school's NIL collective. "I am fully committed to this program and look forward to continuing as the head football coach at the University of Alabama."
My mom has been a salon owner in Baltimore for over 35 years. The salon was my after-school program, my social circle, and my introduction to business. I learned early that work is more than a paycheck. It is the foundation for the kind of life you want to live. My mom didn't talk about freedom in a motivational sense. She lived it. She set her own schedule and ran the business in a way that made sense for her.
Nine former Department of Justice attorneys assigned to investigate alleged antisemitism at the University of California described chaotic and rushed directives from the Trump administration and told The Times they felt pressured to conclude that campuses had violated the civil rights of Jewish students and staff. In interviews over several weeks, the career attorneys - who together served dozens of years - said they were given the instructions at the onset of the investigations.
I have had conversations with people in the Stanford administration. They've talked about at what point can we say no? What if it hits 50 or 60%? At what point do you just say 'We can't do this'?
Since taking the helm in 2021, Hush oversaw a controversial workforce-management policy that included firing 23 tenured faculty members. The American Association of University Professors publicly censured ESU for that decision, and some of the laid-off faculty sued. Emporia officials, including Hush, defended the job cuts, saying they were needed to address a budget deficit and falling enrollment.
Over the past years, FXB has worked on a wide range of programs within the context of human rights, extending across varied projects, including those related to oppression, poverty, and stigma around the world,
On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round of golf at the remote Sand Hills club in Western Nebraska when his cellphone buzzed. Milliken was still days away from taking the helm of the sprawling University of California system, but his new office was on the line with disturbing news: The Trump administration was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at UCLA, UC's biggest campus.
A recent Federal Reserve analysis showed that the unemployment gap between high school and college graduates has been narrowing since the 2008 recession and now sits at around 2.5 percentage points, down from an average of five percentage points from roughly the 1980s to early 2000s. The National Association of Colleges and Employers' 2026 Job Outlook Survey found that employers expect hiring for the Class of 2026 to remain flat. Next year's job market likely won't improve for college graduates.
The Architect Registration Examination (ARE) framework provides a productive lens for understanding how architectural education cultivates the competencies required for sustained engagement with the built environment. Accreditation processes through NCARB ensure that educational programs remain aligned with modern professional standards. The six divisions of the examination articulate interrelated domains of knowledge that range from ethical orientation and managerial coordination to analytical investigation, design synthesis, technical documentation, and construction evaluation.
The annual scholarship, launched by the British Parliament in the 1950s as an expression of gratitude for U.S. support following World War II, enables a group of American college graduates to continue their studies at any university in the United Kingdom. Forty-three students were chosen this year from more than 1,000 applicants. Representing Harvard College are Kashish Bastola '26, Hannah Duane '26, Tenzin Gund-Morrow '26, Ashwin Sivakumar '26, and Edith Siyanbade '24.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore was jailed on Wednesday, according to court records, hours after he was fired for what the university said was an "inappropriate relationship with a staff member." According to the Washtenaw County Jail, the 39-year-old Moore had been booked into the facility as of Wednesday evening. The jail's records did not provide any information about why Moore was detained or whether any court appearances were scheduled.
Alan Lee Burkett passed away on Oct. 23, at the age of 68, surrounded by his loving family and friends. Alan was a beloved husband, father, brother, uncle and friend. Alan loved to row in the bay, swim in the ocean, backpack in the wilderness, ski in the backcountry, ride his bike anywhere, enjoy the art of word play and spend time with family.
Universities are facing mounting challenges. From falling enrolments to dwindling support from populist governments, many institutions are in survival mode. Throw AI into the mix as a possible solution, and it's either a lifeline or a distraction, depending on whom you ask. In the four years since our last Young Universities supplement, the context for these institutions (aged 50 or younger) has changed dramatically.
It's called CollegeWatch. For this job, I am reading constantly about the topic - stories we're publishing, yes, but also stories from publications big and small. What quickly struck me is the power of the work coming out of campus publications, and how little we would know about the full scale of this assault if it were not for these student journalists.
The number of unique credentials available in the U.S. has hit a whopping 1.8 million, with digital badges making up more than a million of those offerings, according to the latest report from Credential Engine. The report, released Tuesday, is the fifth in a series tracking the ever-growing variety of credentials and providers cropping up across the country. Much has changed since the last "Counting Credentials" report came out in 2022.
The goal, Durham wrote, "is to uphold the letter and spirit of the law, but also to ensure we remain fiercely committed to free speech, academic freedom, and fostering an environment where everyone at WSU feels welcome to express their thoughts, engage different viewpoints, and learn from one another." She said that "we are learning from early and well-intentioned efforts at working within this new framework." The university didn't provide an interview or answer multiple written questions Tuesday.
