MIT President Sally Kornbluth is telling President Trump's administration that the prestigious college in Cambridge, Massachusetts will not be signing on to the White House's "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

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The Trump admin's college compact is only the latest effort to change US academic institutions; schools like Columbia, University of Michigan and the University of Chicago are feeling the shift.

PROVIDENCE — Professors and students at Brown University are publicly urging the school not to cave to pressure from the Trump administration to sign a “compact” pledging to uphold President Trump’s political priorities.

For US higher education to survive as a system, there needs to more new “startup” institutions that provide innovation and fresh approaches to education.

North Idaho College President Nick Swayne, Lewis-Clark State College President Cynthia Pemberton and Andrew Fields, CEO of University of Idaho Coeur d’Alene, weighed in on enrollment changes, the impact of AI on higher education and more.

While school advocates touted some successes with Michigan's higher education budget for 2025-26, there were still some priorities missed.

The state has also fallen short of the goal that every student earn at least a high school diploma. About 7% of young Oregonians today have no high school diploma, an improvement from the roughly 11% in 2012.

The University of Ghana (UG) has achieved major success in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) 2026 World University Rankings, emerging as Ghana’s top-performing institution in key areas of research environment,

The University of Birmingham (UoB) has dropped five places in Times Higher Education’s 2026 ranking, placing at 98th. It marks the second year the university has placed within the top 100 of higher education institutes worldwide.

MIT President Sally Kornbluth speaks during Commencement ceremonies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 30, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo (Reuters) -Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.