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A federal judge ruled that a Virginia law that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities based on where they went to high school can stand. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Virginia officials prevailed in their effort to protect a state law that allows undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition rates at Virginia’s public colleges.

It’s been 88 years since the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 established overtime pay for anything beyond 40 hours, and 112 years since Henry Ford introduced the eight-hour workday. Since then, we have experienced the digital revolution and, more recently, the emergence of artificial intelligence, bringing transformations in how productivity is achieved. Yet we are still clinging to a workweek designed for a bygone era when physical presence equated to productivity.

Researchers noted that students also had access to other private AI tools. Photo illustration by Justin Morrison/Inside Higher Ed | PhonlamaiPhoto/iStock/Getty Images | pixdeluxe/E+/Getty Images Before rolling out its AI-powered study assistant to students campuswide, officials at the University of Maryland wanted to know how the tool would influence learning outcomes. But the results of that study have only raised more questions.

This essay concludes my series of essays on anti-intellectualism. To recap: Part 1: The Irony: Anti-intellectualism in the U.S. traces the long history of anti-intellectualism in American life. Part 2: Follow the Money: Anti-Intellectualism in the U.S. points to the financial and commercial machinery that remade the university into a market enterprise and to the political actors who now invoke that very transformation as a pretext to seize control.

For AAUP-Penn members, it was “really encouraging” to fight alongside the university administration. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Tuesday vacated the district court decision that ordered the University of Pennsylvania to turn over the names and contact information of Jewish employees to the Trump administration.

Whenever I chat with college and university presidents, there’s one question I always ask. And even though the response never changes, I keep hoping to find someone who will surprise me and say something I haven’t heard before. “Who do you talk to?” The answer is always “no one.” Except the times when they say it’s their spouse, partner or even a child. Nearly every president circles back to the isolation and emotional toll of the presidency. The job is lonely.

Colleges nationwide go to great lengths to re-enroll the millions of Americans who have left higher education with credits but no credential. But bringing students back doesn’t necessarily address the financial, academic and personal challenges that led them to leave in the first place.

Alabama’s Gulf of America Act took effect last week, making it state policy to use President Trump’s preferred term for the Gulf of Mexico.

Tennessee joins Alabama, Florida, Ohio and Texas in parting ways with the ABA. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Tennessee will no longer require American Bar Association accreditation for law schools whose graduates are seeking admission to the state bar, opening the door to alternative accreditors. The Supreme Court of Tennessee made the change official in a Friday filing.

The University of Arizona put an interim pause on activities for all 21 of its fraternities Monday amid a series of ongoing misconduct investigations, according to a letter the university shared with Inside Higher Ed. In the letter, Dean of Students Chrissy Lieberman wrote that seven weeks into the semester, the university is “already” investigating nearly half of its fraternities for incidents including physical assault, hazing and inappropriate use of drugs and alcohol.