Lakeland – September 12, 2026 -- The Detroit Tigers and Florida Polytechnic University are launching a partnership that embeds a university faculty member directly inside a Major League Baseball performance science unit, aiming to convert academic data research into operational decisions on player health and injury prevention.
Benghazi – -- The University of Benghazi reopened all faculties and facilities on September 12, 2026, ending more than eleven years of closure caused by damage sustained during the Libyan Armed Forces' war against terrorist groups. The reconstruction was carried out by the Libyan Development and Reconstruction Fund, led by Director General Engineer Belqasim Khalifa Haftar, who personally oversaw the project.
The integrated campus reconstruction covered the Faculties of Engineering, Arts, Law, Science and Languages, plus the central library, academic and administrative buildings, laboratories, student residences, service facilities, infrastructure and internal roads. The University of Benghazi, known as the 'Mother of Libyan Universities,' serves nearly 100,000 students and has operated as a free-education institution producing generations of scientists, academics and officials.
Auburn, Ala. – September 12, 2026 -- Auburn University's Sports Medicine and Movement Laboratory is capturing markerless motion-capture data on every pitch and every swing at Plainsman Park, converting real-time biomechanical footage into injury-prevention and performance analytics for collegiate and professional baseball.
Director Gretchen Oliver's team operates an in-house facility inside the Kinesiology Building plus dedicated in-game and in-bullpen labs at Plainsman Park. Hidden cameras record markerless motion-capture data on pitchers and hitters during every home game and bullpen session, generating datasets on shoulder and elbow force loads that feed directly back to coaching staff.
Washington – September 12, 2026 -- Seventy-one percent of surveyed academics say American higher education is worse equipped today than it was 25 years ago to pursue truth-seeking as its central mission, according to a new survey released by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) to mark the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The survey found that 66% of Middle East studies professors do not believe their students can correctly identify the causes or perpetrators of the September 12, 2026 attacks. The same share, 66%, said scholarly academic work has generated cover for ideologies, groups, or regimes directly hostile to the United States.
Grand Rapids – – September 12, 2026 -- Grand Rapids Community College will formally invest Dr. Kathryn A. Rogalski as its 12th president on Sept. 18, making her the first permanent female president in the institution's history since its 1914 founding.
The 3 p.m. ceremony at Fountain Street Church will feature Dr. DeRionne Pollard, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges, which represents more than 1,000 community colleges nationwide. Guillermo Cisneros, president and CEO of the West Michigan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, will emcee the event.
San Antonio – September 08, 2026 -- Graduates of Catholic colleges and universities use artificial intelligence daily at a rate of 44%, eight percentage points higher than the 36% reported by graduates of secular institutions, according to the third Holistic Impact Report (HIR 3.0) commissioned by the Center for Catholic Studies at St. Mary's University in partnership with YouGov.
Beijing – September 08, 2026 -- Scienjoy Holding Corporation (NASDAQ: SJ) has agreed to acquire a 29.9% stake in Hong Kong-listed Leader Education Limited (HKSE: 1449.HK) for HK$102.69 million, or approximately US$13.1 million, marking the live-streaming platform operator's entry into China's private higher education sector.
Under the sale and purchase agreement, Scienjoy's wholly-owned subsidiary Scienjoy Innovation Labs Inc. will buy 239,234,000 ordinary shares from Shuren Education Limited, Leader Education's controlling shareholder. The shares represent 29.9% of Leader Education's issued and outstanding share capital.
SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Research Solutions, Inc., headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, operates a multi-product platform designed to streamline how organizations find, access, and manage scientific literature at scale. The company's portfolio covers on-demand article delivery, AI-assisted citation analysis, academic library supplementation, reference management, and API-level integrations with enterprise AI tools and internal systems. The platform is built around compliance, cost reduction, and workflow consolidation, and is positioned across five distinct industry verticals: pharma/biotech, academic, chemical engineering, financial, and legal.
SHERIDAN, WYOMING - April 14, 2026 - Ellucian has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Higher Education SaaS Student Information Systems for the second consecutive year, consolidating its position as a reference vendor in the campus technology market. The company partners with approximately 3,000 institutions across 50 countries and reports serving more than 21 million students globally through an integrated suite covering ERP, student information systems, and AI-driven workflow tooling. The recognition coincides with a cluster of new institutional customer announcements and the upcoming Ellucian Live 2026, the company's annual global technology conference for higher education decision-makers.
SHERIDAN, WYOMING - December 10, 2025 - MindHYVE.ai, Inc. and the Inter-University Council for East Africa (IUCEA) have entered into a landmark partnership designed to accelerate AI literacy, ethical AI adoption and workforce readiness across one of the world's youngest and fastest-growing regions. Under a new Memorandum of Understanding, IUCEA will champion MindHYVE's agentic learning technologies across more than 170 universities, positioning East Africa as a testbed for large-scale AI education and future-of-work transformation.
Regional higher education as a launchpad for AI fluency
IUCEA, which coordinates and harmonizes higher education across the East African Community, will act as regional advocate and facilitator for MindHYVE's platform. The collaboration is structured to give universities access to world-class AI reasoning tools, certified learning programs and structured training for emerging digital skills.