The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights can no longer process complaints alleging race or gender-based discrimination, according to an internal memo from the U.S. Department of Education...

The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights notified schools in a Feb. 14 letter that they have 14 days to discontinue any consideration of race in their admissions or scholarship decisions...

Texas added the most new jobs in the nation last year, creating 284,200 nonfarm jobs in the state, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Jan. 28.  Texas also took the...

Only student-athletes assigned female at birth will be allowed to compete in university women’s sports, the NCAA announced Thursday in a news release.  The announcement comes after President Donald...

Hundreds gathered on Wednesday in a nationally coordinated protest at the Texas Capitol, marching down Congress Avenue to oppose executive orders from the Trump administration and the Texas Legislature’s...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in women’s sports and committed to “rescind(ing) all funds” from educational...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday promising “forceful and unprecedented steps” to investigate international students who participated in on-campus pro-Palestine protests last...

Editor's note: Since publication, the Executive Office of the President issued a memorandum rescinding the previously announced funding freeze.   A federal judge temporarily halted an attempt...

Colleges and universities are no longer exempt from immigration law enforcement activities, according to a Jan. 21 directive from the Department of Homeland Security.  The directive overturned a 2021...

President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 ordered a delay in the enforcement of a law requiring TikTok to divest from its Chinese-parent company or face a nationwide ban. The executive order instructs the U.S....

Former President Joe Biden ceded the presidency to Donald Trump on Monday and left behind a “mixed” record in higher education policy, law professor Lucas Powe said.  Biden created a student debt...

The U.S. Department of Justice sued a software company and six major property management companies, including one with properties in West Campus, on Jan. 7 for colluding to fix rent prices.  The lawsuit...