Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said in a Sunday interview that University of Virginia President James Ryan, who submitted his resignation on Friday, was given an “explicit” deadline to step aside, in a letter last week from the Department of Justice (DOJ). In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” Warner condemned the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Ryan, who resigned on Friday to avoid funding cuts to the university. Trump’s DOJ had been investigating allegations that the school was not in compliance with President Trump’s January executive order barring diversity, equity and inclusion practices at institutions that receive federal funding. “This is the most outrageous action, I think, this crowd has…

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University of Virginia’s president has resigned amid a Department of Justice probe into the school’s diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, according to reports from The New York Times. James Ryan’s resignation will be effective “no later than August 15,” a person familiar with the matter told the Times. University board members had alleged the school was not in compliance with President Trump’s January executive order barring DEI practices at institutions that receive federal funding. Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, wrote a letter to Ryan on April 28 saying the office had received complaints the university’s administration had failed to follow Trump’s directive. The…

The Supreme Court’s three Democratic-appointed justices dissented Friday from the majority opinion in a case involving a group of parents wishing to opt their children out of elementary school lessons with LGBTQ storybooks, writing that the decision “ushers in that new reality” eroding kids’ “opportunity to practice living in our multicultural society.”  The high court ruled 6-3 along ideological lines Friday morning to send the case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, back to a lower court for a final decision on whether Montgomery County, Md., must provide an opt-out option for parents.   Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority that, in the meantime, the school district must notify parents in advance of…

The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines Friday ruled in favor of parents in Montgomery County, Md., who sought to opt out their children from instruction that uses books with LGBTQ themes. It hands another win to religious rights advocates, who have regularly earned the backing of the high court’s conservative majority in a series of high-profile cases.  Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the six Republican-appointed justices, found the lack of an opt-out option likely substantially burdens parents’ constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.  The decision sends the case back to a lower court for a final decision on whether that requires the county to provide…

More than a dozen of the U.S.’s higher education institutions ranked in the top 20 of global universities. The 2025-26 ranking from U.S. News & World Report included 2,250 top universities from more than 100 countries and considered factors like the school’s international opportunities, student makeup and research opportunities. 16. Cornell, Princeton and University of California, San Francisco People walk on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., Feb. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) Three American universities tied for 16th place in the ranking: Cornell University, Princeton University and the University of California, San Francisco. New York-based Cornell — one of the Ivy League schools under the Trump…

(NewsNation) — Congress is still hashing out the details of President Trump’s “big, beautiful” budget bill, but one thing seems clear: Whatever passes will have major implications for student loans. Both the House-passed version and the proposal still being debated in the Senate include several changes to the federal student loan system, an overhaul Senate Republicans say could save taxpayers at least $300 billion. A central feature of both plans: new caps limiting how much money people can borrow from the federal government to finance their education. Some say the loan limits, specifically those on graduate school and parent borrowing, are long overdue. “Study after study has shown that colleges exploit these unlimited…

This week’s heat dome put a big hole in summer school. Summer classes and other events for students across the country were disrupted by swelteringly high temperatures, a warning of climate-related education disruptions to come. Along with canceled events, experts say unprepared districts will see repercussions including lower test scores and more behavioral problems if plans are not put in place to handle the heat. Several schools in New York closed early this week due to the extreme heat, including more than 20 in the Hudson Valley region. The Washington Central Unified Union School District in Vermont, which was supposed to close for the summer June 24, shut down four…

Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday announced a subpoena against Harvard University President Alan Garber over alleged coordination with other Ivy League schools over tuition increases.  The subpoena, the GOP lawmakers say, is due to a lack of documents turned over by Harvard regarding its investigation into if the university and other Ivy Leagues engaged in price discrimination by working together to raise tuition prices and change financial aid packages.  The members want turned over documents and communications among Harvard and the other schools, communications with the College Board and documents relating to requirements to have students purchase on-campus meal plans and housing, among other things.   “Now…

Public universities in Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee are eschewing long-standing accrediting bodies like the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to create their own certification panel, officials announced Thursday. The formation of the new Commission for Public Higher Education (CPHE) follows Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s battle with SACSCOC over its standards as he pushed his state’s colleges to adopt more conservative approaches to education. “[The new body] will upend the monopoly of the woke accreditation cartels, and it will provide institutions with an alternative that focuses on student achievement, rather than the ideological fads that have so permeated those accrediting…