Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. A University of Colorado Board of Regents member says he is concerned that the “tenor and tone” of the Trump campaign and the spate of violence and harassment directed toward minorities nationwide since the presidential election may lead to a drop in enrollment of international students. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. With the election just over, speculation about winners and losers has been replaced by speculation about what the winners will do with governing the country. When it comes to accreditation, we don’t know much, but we do have some starting points. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The population of Pacific bluefin tuna has tumbled to 2.6 percent of pre-fished levels, but one university in Japan has found an answer. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. There is a growing sense of urgency to steer minorities and women into STEM fields if the United States hopes to remain competitive on a global scale according to data from Change the Equation, a coalition of Fortune 500 companies working to ensure that young people in the United States are STEM literate. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. President-elect Donald Trump nominated Betsy DeVos, a Republican billionaire from Michigan, to be secretary of education last week. The choice of someone well known for her views on K-12 education sent college officials scrambling just before the long Thanksgiving weekend to find anything DeVos might have said about higher education. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Two Massachusetts university presidents reaffirmed their support this week for protecting undocumented immigrants on their campuses, saying they will not voluntarily release information about students’ immigration or citizenship status. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. The spate of racialized attacks on college campuses after the election are, in some ways, the flip side of the protests that sprung up across the country starting last fall. Then, students of color called for their schools to develop more inclusive climates—with big stories breaking from campuses like the University of Missouri and Princeton—and pressed elite institutions to confront the racist histories of the leaders they enshrine. Such activism took place on campuses that don’t have such high profiles, too. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. Zoom today announced that it has become an Internet2 NET+ service provider to offer research and education institutions a customized and standards-based version of Zoom's video conferencing solutions. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. It wasn't the Great Recession, but the early investment returns coming in from America's most prestigious and deep-pocketed colleges indicate that fiscal 2016 will go down as one of the worst performance periods for endowments in recent memory. More...

Submitted by Stefanie Botelho. I’ve always been a reader. I’m the kid who leafed randomly through the World Book Encyclopedia finding out things about Bolivia, carpenter ants and zygotes just because. More...