U.S. News Rankings Are Out After a Tumultuous Year for Colleges

But despite it all, very little changed on the lists many parents and prospective students turn to as admissions season kicks off.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov, Princeton Student, Is Released From Iraq, Trump Says

Iraq’s prime minister also said the group, Kataib Hezbollah, had freed Elizabeth Tsurkov, a Russian-Israeli graduate student taken hostage in Iraq in 2023, in a deal with the United States.

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A.I. School Is in Session: Two Takes on the Future of Education

“I think that A.I. is going to help break, in a sense, the university model that has anyway reached a certain kind of end game,” says the Princeton professor D. Graham Burnett.

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International Student Enrollments Stay Steady at Columbia and Princeton

But Black student enrollment is lower at the two universities after years of turmoil in elite higher education.

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How Campus Reform, a Tiny Conservative News Outlet, Pioneered the Attack on Colleges

Campus Reform was founded years ago to expose what it calls leftist bias on college campuses. The online site’s cause has gone from fringe to mainstream.

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Columbia and Penn Made Trump Deals. More Universities Could Be Next.

Trump officials hope deals with two Ivy League schools create a template that others, including Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern, will follow.

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Republican Tax Plan Could Hurt at Least 58 Colleges

A plan for a hefty new tax on university endowments was crafted to target “woke” schools, lawmakers said. But a small Kansas college and a Texas medical school might also be hit.

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Trump Administration Cuts Princeton Funding to Study Climate Change

The cuts to a Princeton University program come as the Trump administration has been reviewing an array of research grants related to global warming.

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Trump Has Targeted These Universities. Why?

President Trump has set his sights on defunding colleges, singling out some of the world’s wealthiest schools in what critics say is an attack on academic freedom.

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Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University

The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.

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