Boston University has suspended a dozen graduate programs in humanities and social sciences, weeks after graduate students ended a months-long strike. For the 2025 to 2026 academic year, the school ...

In the wake of a lengthy graduate worker strike, Boston University said Tuesday that it will not accept any new PhD students in a dozen humanities and social sciences programs, including English, ...

In what it’s calling a “temporary pause,” Boston University has suspended admissions to several PhD programs in the humanities and social sciences in the 2025-26 academic year, as well as paring down ...

Boston University has suspended admissions to a dozen PhD programs in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. And there’s disagreement on whether or not the new contract between the university and ...

On Reddit late last week, a prospective Boston University philosophy Ph.D. student posted a screenshot of an email and expressed confusion. “We have made the difficult decision to suspend admissions ...

Gregory Kalscheur, S.J., dean of the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, has announced that Boston College’s 2025-26 doctoral student stipend will rise to a nine-month rate of $33,750—plus one ...

In reading the latest news about Boston University and its decision to diminish and cut several PhD programs in the humanities, I have to wonder about the state of higher education (“BU’s deep cuts ...