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A new state Senate bill would permit community colleges to offer bachelor’s degrees in nursing. California community colleges could begin offering bachelor’s degree programs in nursing under a new pilot program proposed in a recent state Senate bill.

Mixed performance by AI-detector tools leaves academics with no clear answers. As AI-driven fakery spreads—from election-related robocalls and celebrity deepfake videos to doctored images and students abusing the powers of ChatGPT—a tech arms race is ramping up to detect these falsehoods. But in higher ed, many are choosing to stand back and wait, worried that new tools for detecting AI-generated plagiarism may do more harm than good.

Beset by financial challenges, the university is seeking to reclassify $34 million in endowment funds to meet liquidity obligations for a $30 million loan. Reeling from financial challenges and leadership turnover, Webster University is seeking to lift restrictions on $34.4 million in endowment funds to fulfill the conditions of a loan agreement. But it will first need a court’s permission.

Someone called Oct. 7 “a beautiful day” at a University of North Carolina event. The Faculty Council then “indefinitely postponed” a resolution that would have condemned the statement. Nearly two months after the start of the war between Hamas and Israel last fall, a speaker at an event sponsored by an academic department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill uttered these words: “Oct. 7, for many of us from the region, was a beautiful day.”

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Title VI was designed to end discrimination and harassment on campus, but the law can also be misused, as partisans …

Enrollment grew by 176,000 as institutions caught up to Gen Z’s thirst for skills-based hiring and training.

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UT Dallas students have long had free rein to paint messages on spirit rocks. Dueling graffiti about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict prompted officials to intervene. As campus protests heated up after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and the retaliatory war that ensued, University of Texas at Dallas students on both sides of the conflict turned to a long-held campus tradition to express their views.