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Staff are seeking two months of pay, healthcare coverage, and damages after the Philadelphia arts school abruptly announced its closure.

The University of the Arts in Philadelphia is closing after losing accreditation, citing financial problems and a lack of compliance.

Pro-Palestinian encampments and protests strained college policies this spring. As summer sets in, some are revising rules ahead of a potentially tumultuous fall. The pro-Palestinian encampments that once crowded U.S. campuses have mostly dissipated now, vanishing with the end of the academic year.

A partnership between George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College promotes timely degree completion among two-year college students through a seamless transfer process with guaranteed admission. Upward transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions remains a challenge for students across the country as they map out their path academically, financially and personally. A partnership between two Virginia institutions helps increase student transfer and degree complet...

Conservative groups are pushing civics requirements in higher education, not just K-12. In North Carolina, undergraduates now must study the founding documents. Will other states follow? States have long imposed specific standards on what K-12 public schools must teach. During the Obama era, the Common Core movement even tried to establish nationwide standards for math and English at these grade levels.

The liberal arts are fading just when we need them most.

Gordon previously drew a distinction between K-12 and collegiate sports, but new legal action takes issue with both.

Radical pressure groups are agitating for a return of congressional earmarks for "nonprofit" organizations.

While declining enrollment and financial challenges are the driving force behind most job and program cuts announced last month, in Texas, politics also played a role. Politics, not economics, accounted for the deepest cuts across higher education in April, with the University of Texas at Austin laying off more than 40 workers in its Division of Campus and Community Engagement (formerly the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement) and another 20 employees in other divisions.

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