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- University of Florida Launches Online Sports Media and Communication Graduate Certificate This article was originally reported in December 2025. The University of Florida announced in December 2025 that its College of Journalism and Communications (CJC) would launch an online Sports Media and Communication Graduate Certificate in spring 2026. The 12-credit program bu… Dec 10, 2025
- FAMU-FSU Engineering Renames Department Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Adds Aerospace Degrees This article was originally reported in December 2025. See the "Latest update" section below for current admission details. The FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, the joint engineering school of Florida State University and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, has renamed it… Dec 10, 2025
- Florida State’s Askew School Rises to No. 14 Worldwide in ShanghaiRanking’s 2025 Public Administration Ranking This article was originally reported in December 2025. The Reubin O'D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University (FSU) climbed in ShanghaiRanking's 2025 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). In the Public Administration subject table, the… Dec 10, 2025
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Purdue’s 2025 Year of Industry Growth: MediaTek Chip Design Center, SK hynix and Discovery Park District
(This article reports on news from December 2025. See "Latest" at the end for the SK hynix groundbreaking in August 2026.) On December 10, 2025, Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) published a review of what they called a transformative year of growth and … Dec 10, 2025
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Forbes Names William & Mary Among Top Colleges for Launching Careers
This article was originally reported in December 2025. In early December 2025, Forbes included William & Mary (W&M) in its list of "15 Top Colleges For Launching Your Career." W&M was the only Virginia institution on the list, which was not numbered. According to W&a… Dec 10, 2025
- Brown Names Its Career Center for Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch After $20 Million Gift This article was originally reported in December 2025. Brown University announced on December 9, 2025, that Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch had given $20 million to support career exploration at Brown, and that its career center would be named the Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Center for … Dec 10, 2025
- MIT NEET Students Build and Install a Solar-Powered Charging Station on Campus This article was originally reported in December 2025. Undergraduates in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's New Engineering Education Transformation (NEET) program designed, built and installed a solar-powered charging station in a campus courtyard, reviving an old MIT … Dec 10, 2025
- FSU Ranks No. 1 Among Public Universities for Long-Term Study Abroad in Open Doors 2025 This article was originally reported in December 2025. On December 9, 2025, Florida State University reported its results in the Institute of International Education's Open Doors 2025 report, which covers U.S. students who studied abroad for credit in 2023–24. FSU ranked No. 1 a… Dec 9, 2025
- UC San Diego Launches Degree Plus, Free Career Certificates for Undergraduates This article was originally reported in December 2025. On December 9, 2025, the University of California San Diego announced Degree Plus, a pilot program that lets undergraduates in selected majors earn a free, skills-based professional certificate alongside their degree, with t… Dec 9, 2025
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Penn Forward: University of Pennsylvania’s Working Group on Access, Affordability and Value
(This article reports on news from December 2025.) On December 4, 2025, Penn Today published an interview with the two co-chairs of the "Access, Affordability, and Value" working group of Penn Forward, the strategic initiative the University of Pennsylvania launched in fall 2025… Dec 5, 2025
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Dartmouth Partners With Anthropic and AWS to Bring Claude to Campus
This article was originally reported in December 2025. On December 3, 2025, Dartmouth College announced a partnership with the AI company Anthropic and Amazon Web Services (AWS) that gives students, faculty and staff access to Anthropic's Claude for Education and to Amazon Bedro… Dec 5, 2025
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Virginia Tech Renames Its Planning Program Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
This article was originally reported in December 2025. Virginia Tech's Urban Affairs and Planning program, part of the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, is now called Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (… Dec 4, 2025
- UW–Madison Creates a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence This article was originally reported in December 2025. The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved on December 4, 2025, a proposal from the University of Wisconsin–Madison to create a College of Computing and Artificial Intelligence (CAI). It is UW–Madison's first ne… Dec 4, 2025
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Dartmouth’s “First Year to Fulbright” Approach: Record Fellowship Wins and a $5 Million Gift for Advising
This article was originally reported in December 2025. Dartmouth College reported in December 2025 that fellowship applications from its students and alumni had risen 153% in four years, from 146 in 2020–21 to 370 in 2024–25, and that alumni couple Tom and Gina Russo, both Class… Dec 3, 2025
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UConn Freezes Tuition for 2026–27, Second Year in a Row
This article was originally reported in December 2025. The 2027–28 fee process is covered in the latest update at the end. On December 3, 2025, the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut approved a 2026–27 budget plan that keeps undergraduate and graduate tuition fla… Dec 3, 2025
- MIT Holds Its First Institute-Wide UROP Mixer and Adds $1 Million for Undergraduate Research This article was originally reported in December 2025. On October 28, 2025, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology held its first Institute-wide mixer for the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), the program that pairs MIT undergraduates with faculty-led resea… Dec 2, 2025
- UF’s iVelas Pilot Puts Community College Transfer Students on an Engineering Research Team This article was originally reported in December 2025. In December 2025, the University of Florida described a pilot program called iVelas (Interdisciplinary Virtual Exchanges with Liberal Arts and Sciences), which gives community college transfer students early access to engine… Dec 2, 2025
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Duke Receives $18 Million to Endow DukeLIFE Support for First-Generation and Low-Income Students
This article was originally reported in December 2025. Duke University has received $18 million to endow DukeLIFE, its program for first-generation and lower-income undergraduates, so that the support continues in perpetuity. The money comes as a challenge fund: Duke alumni Fred… Dec 2, 2025
- Virginia Tech Earns NSA Cyber Defense and Cyber Research Designations This article was originally reported in December 2025. The National Security Agency named Virginia Tech a National Center of Academic Excellence in both Cyber Defense (CAE-CD) and Cyber Research (CAE-R), the university announced on December 1, 2025. It is Virginia Tech's second … Dec 2, 2025
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Johns Hopkins Class of 2029: Record Low-Income Share as Black and Hispanic Enrollment Stays Down After Affirmative Action Ruling
This article was originally reported in December 2025. Johns Hopkins University reported on December 1, 2025 that its Class of 2029, the first-year undergraduates who entered in fall 2025, has the highest share of low-income students in the university's history. The same data sh… Dec 1, 2025
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