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The Penn State Board of Trustees spent more time discussing university business in its public meetings in 2025 than in any of the five previous years.
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Nearly two months after Brad Mortensen was announced as Utah State University’s next president, Weber State University is seeking the public’s input in its presidential search to fill his absence.
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced on December 12, 2025, that negotiators reached consensus during a negotiated rulemaking session on regulations to implement the new Workforce Pell Grant program.
AGB Search, a Washington, D.C.-based recruitment firm, recently helped Western Colorado University find Shelley Thompson as its new vice president of advancement and executive director of the WCU Foundation.
Public colleges’ board members need thick skin, given the likelihood they’ll have to make tough cuts, hire a president, or set unpopular tuition rates. They might want to bring a little more political acumen, too.
More than 50 people across higher education weigh in on the most consequential trend in the sector since 2000.
Three conservative groups are proposing model legislation that would dramatically change faculty tenure paths, teaching loads, research activities and hiring authority.
Three right-leaning organizations this month released model state legislation intended to reduce “taxpayer funding for intellectually unserious ‘research’ projects of activist academics” at public institutions.
AGB urges Governor-elect Spanberger to reverse politicization of VA college boards. Read the...
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Shifting toward merit-based selection of public university board members can better protect academic freedom than politically appointed boards, which have increasingly exerted influence over state colleges and universities in recent years.