The University of Arkansas withdrew a job offer to a legal scholar after state officials learned that she had signed a legal brief concerning transgender athletes, lawmakers said.

Harvard still dominates, though it fell to No. 3 on a list measuring academic output. Other American universities are falling farther behind their global peers.

In a case over the First Amendment rights of noncitizen scholars, a federal judge proposed extending protections to members of two academic groups behind a lawsuit.

As immigration agents and protests lead some families to keep children home, schools around the Twin Cities are offering a remote option for the next several weeks.

The hearing on Thursday followed up on the court?s sweeping finding in September that noncitizen students had the same free speech rights as citizens.

The Trump administration acknowledged it mistakenly deported a college student to Honduras despite a court order barring the removal. But the government has not moved to drop the case.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is giving more than $40 million to programs that have been embraced by conservatives as a counterweight to liberal-dominated academia.

The law, which was approved unanimously by Congress late last year, also gives schools more flexibility in serving nondairy milks.

Some students are still mentioning their race or immigrant status as the Trump administration cracks down on diversity efforts. But many are avoiding sensitive aspects of their identity.

The outcome of a pair of cases on Tuesday could affect laws in 27 states that prohibit transgender girls from joining girls? and women?s sports teams.

?Miracle Children? details how a Louisiana school exploited the demand for stories of Black trauma.

The people who support barring trans girls from girls? sports say the debate affects not just transgender athletes but whole teams and sports.

Kent D. Syverud will become the fifth person to run Michigan since the start of 2022, inheriting a school that also has debated diversity.

One sued to join her middle school girls? cross-country team in West Virginia and the other to join the women?s track and cross-country teams at her university in Idaho.

Some New Yorkers hope that raising a child in the city could become more affordable thanks to Mayor Zohran Mamdani?s plans for free child care and preschool.

The United States is broken, but not in every way.

Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat, appointed new board members at three state schools, hours after she was sworn in as Virginia?s first female governor.

Even as some instructors remain fervently opposed to chatbots, other writing and English professors are trying to improve them.

A federal prosecutor apologized this week, saying an ICE officer made a ?mistake? in deporting Any Lucia López Belloza, a college freshman in Massachusetts, to Honduras.

The Education Department has temporarily paused a plan to seize tax refunds and begin garnishing the wages of borrowers who have defaulted on their student loans.

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