Higher EducationWBUR's coverage of higher education news.Uncertainty And Pandemic Shortfalls Prompt 'Very Tough' Cuts At UMassThe system's adjusted $3.3 billion budget involves a projected $291 million in expense reductions.Local CoverageSep 22, 2020International Students Still Being Denied Visas, AGs WarnA group of state attorneys general led by Maura Healey told a federal judge Tuesday that federal officials have not yet followed through with their pledge to keep in place...Local CoverageJul 23, 2020Advertisement UMass Pairs Tuition Freeze With Layoffs And Spending CutsThe University of Massachusetts will cut fiscal 2021 spending about 5% below last year's level, part of a strategy to close a $264 million budget gap as the university and...Local CoverageJul 20, 2020Poll: Many Low-Income, Latino Residents Are Rethinking College Amid The PandemicA sizable minority of Massachusetts’ most underserved high school students and their families are reconsidering their higher education plans in light of the coronavirus pandemic.Local CoverageJul 15, 2020Gov't Rescinds Rule Barring Foreign Students From U.S. While Colleges Hold Classes RemotelyThe Department of Homeland Security agreed to rescind new and tighter restrictions placed on student visas amid a suit begun by Harvard and MIT. The striking reversal came in a...PlayLocal Coverage03:33Jul 14, 2020Loughlin, Giannulli Want $1M Bail Cut Ahead Of Sentencing In College Admissions Scandal"Full House" actor Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are urging a judge to cut their bail from $1 million to $100,000, saying they will not flee...Local CoverageJul 14, 2020More Than 200 Schools Back Harvard/MIT Lawsuit Over Foreign Student RuleThe schools have signed court briefs arguing that a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy jeopardizes students’ safety and forces schools to reconsider fall plans they have spent months preparing.Local CoverageJul 13, 2020Hampshire College Offers Foreign Students 'Sanctuary' Amid New RulesCollege President Ed Wingenbach said in a statement this week that the private, liberal arts college in Amherst isn’t directly impacted by the new measures, but that the school has...Local CoverageJul 9, 2020Harvard And MIT Sue To Block Tougher ICE Policy On Student VisasIn a suit filed jointly Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court, attorneys for the two universities said the rule “leaves hundreds of thousands with no educational options within the United...Local CoverageJul 8, 2020MIT Will Welcome Seniors Back To Campus This FallThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology will only welcome back two groups of students to its Cambridge campus: Rising seniors who wish to return and "a relatively small fraction of other...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020Brown Announces Plans For Students' Return To Campus In FallUndergraduates will be required to be on campus for two of the three terms - fall, spring and summer - but no first-year students will attend the fall term, President...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020ICE: International Students Whose Courses Are All Online This Fall Must Leave U.S.The immigration agency announced Monday that it is walking back exemptions issued in the spring which allowed international students on F-1 and M-1 visas to temporarily circumvent federal regulations around...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020Harvard Will Ask Most Undergraduates To Stay Off Campus In The FallEvery student who come to campus in the fall will be asked to submit to viral testing every three days, as well as report symptoms to university health officials, wear...Local CoverageJul 6, 2020Citing Long-Term Needs — Not Coronavirus — UMass Dartmouth Cuts Eight Sports TeamsAmong the cuts were men’s lacrosse, women’s equestrian, men’s golf, co-ed sailing, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s and women’s tennis.Local CoverageJul 2, 2020Citing Supreme Court's LGBT-Discrimination Decision, Harvard Ends Sanctions Against Single-Gender ClubsThe reversal — which depends on legal reasoning in the Supreme Court’s recent decision barring discrimination against LGBTQ workers — represents a surprising victory for the single-gender organizations fighting Harvard’s...Local CoverageJun 30, 2020UMass Amherst Will Let Students Choose: Come Back To Campus This Fall, Or Stay HomeThe flagship University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst plans to hold classes remotely this fall and start classes in August but will also allow students to move back in, provided...Local CoverageJun 29, 2020UMass Lowell Cuts 100 Jobs — For NowUniversity officials say the cuts to personnel — which are now deemed temporary, but will last at least several months — are part of an effort to close a projected...Local CoverageJun 26, 2020Pandemic Could Mean Fiscal Peril For Many State Colleges And UniversitiesMost of the state universities and community colleges are financially sound enough to weather the “reasonable scenarios” for at least one year. But much remains uncertain.Local CoverageJun 24, 2020For Small Colleges, Decision To Reopen Campus Is Especially DauntingThe decision to reopen campus this fall is especially hard for small colleges, which risk losing income they rely on.PlayLocal Coverage04:35Jun 24, 2020UMass Boston Staying Remote For Fall SemesterThe school will not bring its students back to the Columbia Point campus in the fall and will instead continue on with the remote teaching and learning platform that it...Local CoverageJun 22, 2020Next Page
Uncertainty And Pandemic Shortfalls Prompt 'Very Tough' Cuts At UMassThe system's adjusted $3.3 billion budget involves a projected $291 million in expense reductions.Local CoverageSep 22, 2020
International Students Still Being Denied Visas, AGs WarnA group of state attorneys general led by Maura Healey told a federal judge Tuesday that federal officials have not yet followed through with their pledge to keep in place...Local CoverageJul 23, 2020
UMass Pairs Tuition Freeze With Layoffs And Spending CutsThe University of Massachusetts will cut fiscal 2021 spending about 5% below last year's level, part of a strategy to close a $264 million budget gap as the university and...Local CoverageJul 20, 2020
Poll: Many Low-Income, Latino Residents Are Rethinking College Amid The PandemicA sizable minority of Massachusetts’ most underserved high school students and their families are reconsidering their higher education plans in light of the coronavirus pandemic.Local CoverageJul 15, 2020
Gov't Rescinds Rule Barring Foreign Students From U.S. While Colleges Hold Classes RemotelyThe Department of Homeland Security agreed to rescind new and tighter restrictions placed on student visas amid a suit begun by Harvard and MIT. The striking reversal came in a...PlayLocal Coverage03:33Jul 14, 2020
Loughlin, Giannulli Want $1M Bail Cut Ahead Of Sentencing In College Admissions Scandal"Full House" actor Lori Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are urging a judge to cut their bail from $1 million to $100,000, saying they will not flee...Local CoverageJul 14, 2020
More Than 200 Schools Back Harvard/MIT Lawsuit Over Foreign Student RuleThe schools have signed court briefs arguing that a new Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy jeopardizes students’ safety and forces schools to reconsider fall plans they have spent months preparing.Local CoverageJul 13, 2020
Hampshire College Offers Foreign Students 'Sanctuary' Amid New RulesCollege President Ed Wingenbach said in a statement this week that the private, liberal arts college in Amherst isn’t directly impacted by the new measures, but that the school has...Local CoverageJul 9, 2020
Harvard And MIT Sue To Block Tougher ICE Policy On Student VisasIn a suit filed jointly Wednesday morning in U.S. District Court, attorneys for the two universities said the rule “leaves hundreds of thousands with no educational options within the United...Local CoverageJul 8, 2020
MIT Will Welcome Seniors Back To Campus This FallThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology will only welcome back two groups of students to its Cambridge campus: Rising seniors who wish to return and "a relatively small fraction of other...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020
Brown Announces Plans For Students' Return To Campus In FallUndergraduates will be required to be on campus for two of the three terms - fall, spring and summer - but no first-year students will attend the fall term, President...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020
ICE: International Students Whose Courses Are All Online This Fall Must Leave U.S.The immigration agency announced Monday that it is walking back exemptions issued in the spring which allowed international students on F-1 and M-1 visas to temporarily circumvent federal regulations around...Local CoverageJul 7, 2020
Harvard Will Ask Most Undergraduates To Stay Off Campus In The FallEvery student who come to campus in the fall will be asked to submit to viral testing every three days, as well as report symptoms to university health officials, wear...Local CoverageJul 6, 2020
Citing Long-Term Needs — Not Coronavirus — UMass Dartmouth Cuts Eight Sports TeamsAmong the cuts were men’s lacrosse, women’s equestrian, men’s golf, co-ed sailing, men’s and women’s swimming and diving, and men’s and women’s tennis.Local CoverageJul 2, 2020
Citing Supreme Court's LGBT-Discrimination Decision, Harvard Ends Sanctions Against Single-Gender ClubsThe reversal — which depends on legal reasoning in the Supreme Court’s recent decision barring discrimination against LGBTQ workers — represents a surprising victory for the single-gender organizations fighting Harvard’s...Local CoverageJun 30, 2020
UMass Amherst Will Let Students Choose: Come Back To Campus This Fall, Or Stay HomeThe flagship University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst plans to hold classes remotely this fall and start classes in August but will also allow students to move back in, provided...Local CoverageJun 29, 2020
UMass Lowell Cuts 100 Jobs — For NowUniversity officials say the cuts to personnel — which are now deemed temporary, but will last at least several months — are part of an effort to close a projected...Local CoverageJun 26, 2020
Pandemic Could Mean Fiscal Peril For Many State Colleges And UniversitiesMost of the state universities and community colleges are financially sound enough to weather the “reasonable scenarios” for at least one year. But much remains uncertain.Local CoverageJun 24, 2020
For Small Colleges, Decision To Reopen Campus Is Especially DauntingThe decision to reopen campus this fall is especially hard for small colleges, which risk losing income they rely on.PlayLocal Coverage04:35Jun 24, 2020
UMass Boston Staying Remote For Fall SemesterThe school will not bring its students back to the Columbia Point campus in the fall and will instead continue on with the remote teaching and learning platform that it...Local CoverageJun 22, 2020