Public policy professor James Finkelstein spoke with Higher Ed Dive about the increased political and private sector influence on higher education’s top role.

Davis took over the presidency after former President Jay Hartzell’s sudden departure. Davis was hired straight out of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office in 2018, after three years of working beside ...

He was ready to disappear from university leadership.Anyway, an aging white man didn’t fit the brief. Harvard was preparing ...

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — Columbia University is on the verge of striking an agreement with the Trump administration following months of negotiation to restore federal funding to the school ...

A politically motivated hacker breached Columbia University's data systems last week, stealing student records and causing widespread disruptions.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) called for Columbia University’s president to step down after the release of electronic messages in which the president criticized a Jewish member of the ...

The university official said that the purported “hacktivist” targeted specific documents during the June 24 cyberattack.

The Middle States Commission on Higher Education warned Columbia University that its accreditation could be in jeopardy. The warning, sent June 26, comes after the Education Department pressured the ...

A hacker who caused a dayslong IT outage at the University in June stole data from Columbia’s networks, the University wrote in a Tuesday statement. A University official told Spectator that it could ...

Columbia Cyberattack Appears Politically Motivated, University Says The attacker, described as a “hacktivist,” shut down computer systems and stole student data last week.

Columbia University said its IT systems experienced an outage that started on Tuesday morning, adding it was probing the incident and had notified law enforcement.