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Private colleges in Pittsburgh like Duquesne University and Robert Morris University have seen declining enrollment over the past decade. What has led to the dip?

A new approach to college curricula reduces the number of required credit hours sometimes to as low as 90 credit hours, allowing degrees to be completed in three years.

The number of students who filled out the federal aid form is down nearly 30 percent. The ramifications for access and enrollment could be devastating. In a typical year at LEAD Academy High School in Nashville, a college prep–focused charter school where Kelly Pietkiewicz used to work as a counselor, about 80 percent of students fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA). This year, with only a few weeks until graduation, that number has dropped to 20 percent.

Joe Gow, who served 16 years as the UW-La Crosse chancellor, now says his porn series was protected by his First Amendment rights.

State universities are scrambling to rebrand their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts after a Republican governor signed a law prohibiting DEI offices.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law banning the funding of diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) in public universities

Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are under investigation by multiple federal entities for alleged civil rights violations

While Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are under investigation by the Biden administration following a rise in antisemitic incidents at the universities, it’s unlikely they’ll face any serious consequences, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

When Forbes magazine announced its editor’s pick for the best higher education books of 2023, author and University of Kentucky College of Education professor emeritus John Thelin, Ph.D., made the list for the third time since 2019. 

Last week a professor at the notoriously liberal New School in New York faced possible university punishment for speaking the n-word while quoting African American literary figure James Baldwin.