The Hunt Institute published two briefs on the strategies implemented by the states of Maryland and Tennessee to address the underfunding of public and private HBCUs in their states.

This week, The New School in New York City has increased pressure on adjunct faculty members who have been on strike for over three weeks, threatening to cease their pay and healthcare benefits if they do not return to the classroom.

Last week, President Biden announced that the student loan payment pause would be extended until June 30th, 2023 due to the Supreme Court cases against his loan forgiveness plan. The pause was originally set to expire on December 31. In August 2022, in keeping with...

According to Yale Daily News, Yale University may soon experience a decline in fundraising after astronomically high rates of donations during the pandemic. Published on November 30th, the article attributes the possible future decline to market downturns. 

Yale saw a 6 percent increase in the number of early action applications for the class of 2027 compared to that of last year. The acceptance rate for the class of 2026 early action was 10.9 percent out of approximately 7,300 applications.

Harvard Law School and Yale Law School issued a blow to U.S. News & World Report’s Best Law School Rankings, announcing that they will no longer participate in the influential rankings system.

A new Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education showed a 3.8% increase in the number of international students studying in the United States for the 2021-22 academic year. While the population is not yet back to pre-pandemic numbers, this report ma…

In 1976, Charles White’s Centralia Madonna disappeared from Howard University’s collection amidst the university’s accusations of theft. After 50 years, Inside Higher Ed reports that the piece will be returned to the HBCU.

Aside from the extremely competitive schools with meager acceptance rates, many colleges and universities in the United States admit most applicants. In fact, according to The Atlantic, seventy-five percent of schools on The Common App accept more than fifty percent of …

The landmark case has the potential to ban the use of race-conscious admissions policies nationally, overturning four decades of legal precedent and calling into question the use of affirmative action in institutions outside of higher education.