1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (1641+ words) Top-ranked colleges and the Trump administration are embracing the exams, but that doesn’t mean test-optional policies are falling out of favor everywhere. All eight Ivy League institutions have either moved away from COVID-era test-optional policies or plan to do so…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (1160+ words) After wide-ranging academic cuts, the public institution’s leaders worked with faculty to make some previously doomed programs more efficient and viable. In January 2025, Sonoma State University announced broad cuts to jobs and academic programs, and said it would eliminate its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (461+ words) The university faced outcry and a lawsuit over its decision to eliminate sports last year as part of broader cuts to close a $24 million deficit. The impact: In the announcement, Sonoma State said it plans to relaunch its women’s basketball,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (519+ words) The highly selective medical school is the third in the University of California system to face such an accusation from the federal agency. The DOJ accused UC San Diego's medical school of violating Title VI, which bars discrimination based on…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (582+ words) The system’s academic senate is “revising its timeline” to comprehensively examine the role of college entrance exams, according to its chair. UC eliminated its standardized testing requirement for prospective undergraduate students across its 12 campuses in 2020. That year, hundreds of other…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (620+ words) The New York City institution is the last Ivy League college to announce an end to its test-optional admissions policy. Columbia, along with hundreds of other colleges across the U.S., went test optional in 2020 as COVID-19 forced common testing sites to…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (568+ words) The No Aid for Ghost Students Act would largely codify a system for screening applicants that the U.S. Department of Education launched earlier this year. Rep. Burgess Owens, a Utah Republican who introduced the legislation, praised the fraud detection efforts the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (670+ words) The agency took aim at the Davis Scale, a metric tracking socioeconomic advantage that has helped the institution maintain diversity in its student body. The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday alleged that the University of California, Davis’ medical school violated…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (273+ words) The probe is one of dozens of civil rights investigations the federal agency has publicized over the last week. BMI, a systemwide program across CUNY’s 26 campuses, primarily focuses on boosting four metrics for underrepresented students: enrollment, retention, overall grade point…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (800+ words) The institution sought to change the scholarship’s eligibility to first-generation students, citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s ban on race-conscious admission. Ezra Totton, a Black chemistry professor, left a scholarship bequest to the institution upon his death in 1996 "out of gratitude…...