The University of Colorado has declined to pay cybercriminals a $17 million ransom in order for the criminals not to publish stolen information on the dark web. Several universities, including the University of Colorado, Yeshiva University, the University of Miami, the University of California system, Stanford University's School of Medicine and the University of Maryland,
South Carolina private colleges are challenging a state constitutional amendment prohibiting public funding for religious or other private educational institutions.
Florida is poised to pass a bill allowing students to record classes for personal use -- and to complain about professors who violate students' free expression. Idaho's higher ed budget is also on hold over lawmakers' concerns about diversity programs.