Higher Ed Dive

2 days ago | highereddive.com | Laura Spitalniak

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. A federal judge on Wednesday signed off on a joint motion from the U.S. Department of Justice and Texas to strike down the state's 24-year-old law offering in-state tuition rates to undocumented students. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxtoncalled the law a "discriminatory and un-American provision" in a statement and claimed victory for the court order holding it to be unconstitutional.

3 days ago | highereddive.com | Laura Spitalniak

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Seattle University officially absorbed the Cornish College of the Arts, it announced Tuesday, realizing the deal the two signed earlier this year to transfer nearly all of the arts college’s assets to the university. The university expects the campus — now known as Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University — to enroll between 430 and 450 students in the upcoming fall semester, according to a Tuesday announcement.

3 days ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The University of Idaho and the University of Phoenix have agreed to nixtheir deal for the state university to acquire the for-profit college, the two institutions said Tuesday. The University of Idaho will ask the state’s board of regents to terminate the agreement at a meeting Thursday, according to a news release.

3 days ago | highereddive.com | Laura Spitalniak

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Some 37.6 million working-age adults had some college credits but no credential at the start of the 2023-24 academic year, according to new data released Wednesdayby the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The population, up 2.2% nationally from the previous year, increased across all states. But reenrollment among "some college, no credential" adults climbed by 2.7%, marking the second annual increase in a row.

4 days ago | highereddive.com | Ben Unglesbee

Keystone College has completed its merger with the nonprofit Washington Institute for Education and Research, the private Pennsylvania institution announced Monday. The transaction, which has been approved by the college’s accreditor as well as state and federal regulators, makes Keystone a subsidiary of WIER, though the college will “continue operations under its current name and educational mission,” the institution said.