Category: News Updates – FR

“U-M to offer new programs, processes for fall ‘26 applicants”

The University Record (University of Michigan)

The University of Michigan is making several enhancements for the fall 2026 application cycle, including adding an option that will allow students to secure their place at U-M earlier than ever before, and new undergraduate and first-year admitting programs for engineering, business and education students.

Early Decision is a new, binding program that will allow qualified first-year applicants for the 2026-27 academic year to receive an admission decision from UM-Ann Arbor in December. Early Decision is being offered… read more

“With $2.7 billion settlement approved, college sports’ big money era is officially here,” NPR

“A federal judge has approved the multibillion-dollar class-action legal settlement known as House v. NCAA, paving the way for a new era for college sports.

Starting this fall, colleges and universities in the NCAA’s top division will be allowed to directly pay athletes for the first time. Payments will be limited by a salary cap set initially at $20.5 million per school. And more than $2 billion will be paid out to former college athletes who were not allowed to earn money…”

Read the article on the NPR website.