Kathryn Palmer

The Department of Government Efficiency has taken control of a federal website that universities and other organizations use to find out about—and apply for—federal grant opportunities, The Washington Post reported Friday.

A coalition of research universities and higher education advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the Department of Energy, asking a judge to immediately block the department’s plan to cap universities’ indirect research cost reimbursement rates at 15 percent.

After a months-long pause, advisory councils for the National Institutes of Health are restarting, paving the way for the final approval of grants. Experts say it’s an encouraging sign for the $47 billion agency.

While most students want good mentors, faculty often don’t know how to deliver on those expectations. A new book from a faculty coach at Duke University offers some guidance.

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the American Council on Education debut a new classification system focused on student success.

Sethuraman Panchanathan, director of the National Science Foundation, resigned Thursday after more than five years at the helm. His resignation comes less than one week after he issued sweeping priority changes—including terminating funding for projects that focus on diversity, equity and inclusion or combating misinformation—at the independent agency that funds billions of dollars to nonmedical university research each year.

A new survey from the Humanities Indicators Project and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences shows that department chairs are worried about falling enrollments and tenure-track jobs.

A group of law students from Georgetown University is indexing law firms’ responses to President Donald Trump’s orders to sanction legal practitioners he’s accused of engaging “in frivolous, unreasonable, and vexatious litigation.” And publishing such information may be making it harder for the law firms that have caved to Trump’s demands to recruit new lawyers, the court-focused publication

A former director of the National Institutes of Health—who resigned in February—told CBS’s 60 Minutes that working at the agency became “untenable” after President Donald Trump started his second term Jan. 20.

A new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released April 29 found 42% of respondents approved of President Donald Trump's job.