The legal status for some students has been restored but litigation on their behalf remains active because of uncertainty about what the government might do next.
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| A Bloomington-based immigration attorney said his office has been flooded with calls from international students worried they will have to abandon their studies and leave the country. |
Titled “Raise Your Hand, Not Your Voice: Freedom of Speech in Higher Education,” the symposium will be hosted by the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis.
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Under the new law, faculty members at public universities will be required to teach scholarly works “from a variety of political or ideological frameworks” within the faculty member’s purview of instruction.
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The Indiana Commission for Higher Education will hold a special meeting Friday to vote on Secretary of Education Katie Jenner as the state’s next commissioner for higher education. If approved, she would lead both the Indiana Department of Education and the higher education commission.
A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s schools and universities.
The ACLU argues the law is a clear violation of the free speech protections of the First Amendment and the guarantee of due process in the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Justice Department has been suing states to end tuition breaks for students without legal residency, starting with Texas in June. In Indiana, such students are generally ineligible for in-state tuition.
The federal government is accusing the school of racial discrimination in the form of affirmative action.
Under the deal, Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations.
Lowery announced his resignation in a message sent Tuesday to university and government officials. His departure will take effect Oct. 10.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of several Indiana professors over the state’s intellectual diversity law, claiming the case lacks jurisdiction.
The Ivy League school will pay a $200 million settlement over three years. It will also pay $21 million to resolve alleged civil rights violations against Jewish employees that occurred following the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.
More than 81,000 Indiana high school students took the test in 2024-25.
The case is before U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, who also is presiding over lawsuits brought by Harvard against the administration’s efforts to keep it from hosting international students.
The new agency in charge of regulating name, image, likeness deals in college sports sent a letter to schools Thursday saying it had rejected deals between players and donor-backed collectives formed over the past several years to funnel money to athletes or their schools.
Lawmakers called the program a threat to national security and a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.
The Manhattan college, an all-women’s affiliate of Columbia University, will also establish a new Title VI coordinator to enforce against claims of discrimination.
Six of Indiana’s public colleges and universities are cutting or consolidating more than 400 academic degree programs ahead of a new state law that takes effect this week, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced Monday.
According to the Governor’s Office, state records indicate this is the first time in nearly 15 years that more than two campuses have frozen tuition at the same time.
A federal judge on Friday put one of those efforts on hold until a lawsuit is resolved. But the fate of Harvard’s international students — and its broader standoff with the Trump administration — remain in limbo.
Taking action without providing a meaningful explanation seems to be standard policy when it comes to Indiana’s public universities these days.
A newly constituted Indiana University Board of Trustees on Thursday changed the school’s protest policy related to a federal lawsuit after Gov. Mike Braun’s three new appointees were sworn in.
The agreement brings a seismic shift to hundreds of schools that were forced to reckon with the reality that their players are the ones producing the billions in TV and other revenue.