State funding for higher ed ticked up by 1 percent, but that doesn’t account for inflation. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | RODWORKS/iStock/Getty Images New data from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) show that state appropriations …

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Faculty members at regional public and community colleges in Oklahoma can no longer be granted tenure. Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt decreed the end of tenure in an executive order, effective Thursday. The state has a “constitutional and statutory responsibility to …

In early January, the Department of Health and Human Services and the USDA unveiled new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, along with a new food pyramid. The USDA sets school nutrition standards based on those dietary guidelines, which now place an …

The Education Department sent a message to colleges and universities nationwide Thursday: Any that use data released this year by a massive student voting study risk being labeled violators of a federal law protecting student privacy, and suffering financial consequences …

Just months after the launch of the first handful of in-person, three-year undergraduate programs last fall, one university has announced it will offer all of its undergraduate programs as reduced credit “bachelor’s of applied science” degrees. Starting in spring 2026, …

For many students, vertical transfer (transfer from an associate’s to a bachelor’s program) is less a bridge than a maze. Typically, about 80 percent of community college students say they intend to earn a bachelor’s degree, yet only about 30 percent ever …