BREAKING: Northeastern recorded a 5.6% acceptance rate for the Class of 2029, up from last year's record low of 5.2%. This is the first increase in the number of students accepted to the Boston campus since 2020. 📰: Zoe MacDiarmid huntnewsnu.com/87735/campus...

More than 600 Hispanic-serving institutions are at risk of losing millions of dollars in annual support after the Justice Department late last month declined to defend a federal grant program against a lawsuit.

The nation’s most selective colleges might have just snatched away your students. Duke, Harvard, Rice, and Stanford have deviated from their typical admissions processes in an eleventh-hour bid to boost enrollment. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

As part of its deal with the Trump administration, Columbia will spend $21 million making direct payments to Jewish employees who "may have experienced antisemitism." Not all of them are happy about it. Read more in @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/colu...

SCOOP: The NIH is moving to prohibit funded scientists, inside and outside the agency, from collecting data about gender, according to a draft policy I obtained. It’s part of the NIH’s aggressive crackdown on gender-identity research. www.chronicle.com/article/gend...

Where is the money from Columbia's $200 million settlement with the Trump admin going once it leaves the university's pockets? I asked experts, who said past precedent offers little guidance for an administration using an unprecedented playbook. For @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/wher...