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February 2026
Policy
- [Policy] UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty
Inside Higher Ed, 02.11.26 - [Policy] Can Embattled Women’s and Gender Studies Programs Survive?
Inside Higher Ed, 02.06.26 - [Policy] Barnard, Columbia join Harvard legal fight against Trump administration’s blocking of international student enrollment
Columbia Spectator, 02.09.26 - [Policy] The Chilling Effect of Student-Visa Vetting
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 02.06.26 - [Policy] Pell Grant Facing $11.5B Shortfall, CBO Says
Inside Higher Ed, 02.13.26 - [Policy] UT Austin Folds Gender, Ethnic Studies Into Single Department
Inside Higher Ed, 02.13.26 - [Policy] Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise
The Conversation, 02.12.26 - [Policy] Florida proposal to further limit out-of-state, international students at some universities advances in House
CBS News, 02.11.26 - [Policy] Pentagon to cut ties with Columbia, Yale, Brown and others Hegseth accuses of ‘wokeness’
AP News, 02.27.26 - [Policy] Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review”
EOS, Science News by AGU, 02.06.26 - [Policy] At Boulder’s NIST, three-year cap on international early-career researchers sparks fears of a scientific exodus
Boulder Reporting Lab, 02.12.26
Education
- [Education] College Board Bans Smart Glasses During SAT
Inside Higher Ed, 02.02.26 - [Education] University of Southern California Names a Lawyer as Its New President
The New York Times, 02.04.26 - [Education] Colleges See Major Racial Shifts in Student Enrollment
The New York Times, 02.03.26 - [Education] An AI Bot Is Making Podcasts With Scholars’ Research. Many of Them Aren’t Impressed.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 02.05.26 - [Education] At These Universities, Using AI Isn’t Shunned — It’s a Graduation Requirement
the74million.org, 02.17.26 - [Education] As Students Turn to ChatGPT for College Searches, AI Visibility Becomes Priority
Inside Higher Ed, 02.13.26
Research
- [Research] Living in space can change where your brain sits in your skull – new research
The Conversation, 02.11.26 - [Research] Adjunct Faculty in the Higher Education Workforce
College and University Professional Association for Human Resources, 02.04.26 - [Research] Can our pets really say ‘I love you’? Science is finding out
University of California News, 02.12.26 - [Research] 3 ways UC science is healing broken hearts
University of California News, 02.11.26
Other
- [Other] Here’s What the Latest Epstein Files Say About His Ties to Higher Ed
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 02.02.26 - [Other] Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding
AP News, 02.12.26
January 2026
Policy
- [Policy] Community college officials urge approval of blocked bachelor’s degrees
EdSource, 01.13.26 - [Policy] Federal prosecutor apologizes for Babson student’s deportation in violation of court order
Boston.com, 01.14.26 - [Policy] UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
The Guardian, 01.14.26 - [Policy] Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip
The New York Times, 01.15.26 - [Policy] He Axed Tenured Faculty. He Could Now Help Republicans Cut Budgets Statewide
Inside Higher Ed, 01.16.26 - [Policy] Trump 2.0’s impact on higher ed: The first year in 8 numbers
Higher Ed Dive, 01.20.26 - [Policy] Spanberger appoints 27 to university boards, orders study of selection process
Virginia Mercury, 01.20.26 - [Policy] Why California universities are still ‘on edge’ after Newsom proposed large budget increases
EdSource, 01.21.26 - [Policy] Rebuking Trump, Congress Moves to Maintain Most Federal Education Funding
Education Week, 01.20.26 - [Policy] MSI Cuts Create Barriers for Indigenous Learners
Inside Higher Ed, 01.20.26 - [Policy] Trump’s admissions data collection strains college administrators
The Hechinger Report, 01.19.26 - [Policy] Yale will cut graduate student enrollment due to federal tax hike, dean says
CT Insider, 01.22.26 - [Policy] He left the US for an internship. Trump’s travel ban made it impossible to return
AP News, 01.26.26
Education
- [Education] Booming SF neighborhood will be home to new college campus — a blow to downtown
San Francisco Chronicle, 01.13.26 - [Education] Some UF Venezuelan students have new hopes of returning home. Others aren’t so sure.
The Independent Alligator, 01.11.26 - [Education] The Enduring Hazards of College Hazing
The Assembly, 01.14.26 - [Education] Ph.D. Programs in Flux as GU Directs Admissions Reductions
The Hoya, 01.16.26 - [Education] More students are going to college. Affordability and workforce training are factors
NPR, 01.15.26 - [Education] Women far outnumber men in law school, med school, vet school and other professional programs
The Hechinger Report, 01.20.26 - [Education] ‘Just not monetizable’: humanities programs face existential crisis at US universities
The Guardian, 01.20.26 - [Education] Beyond ‘cheating’: AI exposes deeper crises in universities
University World News, 01.22.26
Research
- [Research] A new CRISPR startup is betting regulators will ease up on gene-editing
MIT Technology Review, 01.09.26 - [Research] Watch how Berkeley research turned coffee spills into a life-saving test
UC Berkeley News, 01.09.26 - [Research] Some UF Venezuelan students have new hopes of returning home. Others aren’t so sure.
EdSource, 01.14.26 - [Research] Young men want to get big. For some, it’s becoming an obsession
NPR, 01.14.26 - [Research] New Study Examines Gender Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Risk
Caltech, 01.20.26