U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in foreign gifts, contracts in 2025. U.S. colleges received more than $5 billion in reportable foreign gifts and contracts in 2025, according to a new website from the U.S. Education Department. The release is part of a push by the Trump administration to make foreign influence in colleges and universities more transparent. Read the story.
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The false promise of a tech job. Learn to code, they said! And then the layoffs started happening. The tech industry is hemorrhaging jobs. According to one estimate, there have been over 700,000 tech workers laid off since 2022. But there was once a time when “learn to code” was the advice de rigueur. Listen to the podcast.
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The Pentagon says it's cutting ties with 'woke' Harvard, ending military training. The announcement marks the latest development in the Trump administration's prolonged standoff with Harvard over the White House's demands for reforms at the Ivy League school. Read the story.
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In Beirut, Lebanon's cats of war find peace on university campus. There are several things that make the American University of Beirut unique. Among them are its 160-year-old liberal arts education in the center of the Middle East. There is its seaside location in a cosmopolitan capital. But hands down, the college's most unusual feature is its campus cats — as many as 1,600 of them.
The cat rescue started during the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s when animals sought shelter from street fighting in the 1980s on its campus in the downtown Hamra area. It has evolved into a continuing program to care for cats abandoned during more recent wars. Read the story.
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