Education

The US Department of Education announced on Friday its determination that George Mason University (GMU) violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The department’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) alleged that the university illegally considered race, sex,

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially declared Tuesday, August 26, 2025, as a day of nationwide protest across all university campuses. The action is aimed at expressing strong dissatisfaction with what the union described as the Federal

The Maryland Department of Commerce today joined the Maryland Institute College of Art, Loyola University Maryland, McDaniel College, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland, College Park in endowing more than

“We’ve had a shift in our perspective regarding AI,” says C. Edward Watson, vice president for digital innovation at the American Association of Colleges and Universities. “The first sort of signal that the United States might have competition in the

Aspiring early childhood educators who want to pursue undergraduate degrees next year might lose out on federal loans they need to afford their studies. That’s because, ironically, the profession does not seem to pay many of its workers enough to

A provision in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill has barred federal student loans for degree programs whose graduates did not meet new earnings thresholds. It also has imposed new lifetime borrowing caps for graduate and professional students, a

As artificial intelligence reshapes the foundations of higher education and professional pathways, students entering college in 2025 face a profoundly altered terrain. No longer is a traditional degree a guaranteed ticket to career success; instead, adaptability and AI literacy have

When the company OpenAI launched its new artificial intelligence program, ChatGPT, in late 2022, educators began to worry. ChatGPT could generate text that seemed like a human wrote it. How could teachers detect whether students were using language generated by

If you’re having trouble writing your scholarship essay, use these best practices to create a powerful essay that will increase your chances of receiving a scholarship. 1.     Follow instructions That’s all there is to it. Your chances of receiving a

Perhaps you’ve heard great things about online classes and are looking for unbiased advice. Or maybe you’ve heard all the horror stories about taking algebra 225 at 8 a.m. on Zoom! Online education, like everything else, has advantages and disadvantages.