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fromAxios
6 days ago

Colleges turn down Trump's "compact" agreement offer

The pact requires universities to cap enrollment of international students, commit to strict definitions of gender, freeze tuition for five years, conductmerit-based faculty hiring, and ban race and gender in admissions decisions. Several of the schools the Trump administration approached about the compact previously had funding disputes over changes in their research policy or DEI initiatives. Agreeing to the pact would have given the universities priority for grants and invitations to White House events.
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#academic-freedom
fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago
Higher education

The president tried to bribe colleges into ending trans rights. Most have said no. - LGBTQ Nation

fromNature
1 week ago
US politics

How scientists are pushing back against Trump's funding 'deal' for universities

fromLGBTQ Nation
6 days ago
Higher education

The president tried to bribe colleges into ending trans rights. Most have said no. - LGBTQ Nation

fromNature
1 week ago
US politics

How scientists are pushing back against Trump's funding 'deal' for universities

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fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 week ago

Why a scholarship for Black California students now has to accept white applicants

UC San Diego converted a Black-only alumni scholarship into a race-neutral fund after a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

Transfer: What's Working and Where Further Reform Is Needed

As part of National Transfer Student Week, hundreds of college campuses are hosting public celebrations to uplift their transfer student communities, including many in our home state of California. While these celebrations are important to increase visibility and a sense of belonging, transfer students warrant our attention and support year-round. The data demonstrate why: While 80 percent of community college students nationally aspire to earn a bachelor's degree, just 17 percent of community college students in California reach that finish line within six years.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

English universities can raise tuition fees if they meet tough' standards, says Phillipson

Tuition fees in England will rise with inflation only for institutions meeting strict quality thresholds, with maintenance loans also increasing automatically to support low-income students.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 week ago

USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right

I appreciate the various points of view shared with me by many members of our community. Although USC has declined to join the proposed Compact, we look forward to contributing our perspectives, insights, and Trojan values to an important national conversation about the future of higher education.
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fromThe New Yorker
2 weeks ago

Inside the Trump Administration's Assault on Higher Education

Conservatives embraced federal administrative power, professionalized bureaucratic tactics, and used agencies, litigation, and rulemaking to advance policy and cultural goals.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 week ago

A Great Divergence Across States on Autonomy (opinion)

In conservative states, a spate of recent laws gives legislators and governors more control over public higher education curriculum, take authority from faculty over educational policy decisions, and require the policing of faculty and programs for left-leaning bias. States exercising increasing levels of control over public colleges and universities are moving toward a regulatory environment for higher education more like that for public elementary and secondary schools.
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fromThe Atlantic
1 week ago

The Logical End Point of Trump's Higher-Education Agenda

But the new higher-education compact offered to universities by the administration strongly suggests that Trump's higher-education agenda, if successful, will result in a far less diverse academy, with fewer Black and Latino students. It will do this by demanding that colleges adopt an admissions system based purely on test scores and GPA-and accusing any institution that resists of illegal racial preferences.
Higher education
Higher education
fromwww.mercurynews.com
2 weeks ago

Opinion: Apple's translating AirPods won't work without state's language grads

Language degrees remain essential because human expertise in cultural, historical, and contextual meaning is necessary to guide, evaluate, and improve machine translation.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students

Harvard's ability to enroll international students has been revoked by the Trump administration, affecting many currently enrolled students.
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fromwww.npr.org
5 months ago

Trump administration revokes Harvard's ability to enroll international students

Harvard's ability to enroll international students has been revoked by the Trump administration, affecting many currently enrolled students.
UK politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Badenoch criticised for nonsensical' plan to cut student numbers by 100,000 UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch proposes austerity-focused reforms including a new economic golden rule, ECHR withdrawal, Climate Change Act repeal, aid cuts, and reduced university admissions.
Philosophy
fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

A Call to Public Scholars During Turbulent Times

The Academy risks becoming an insular echo chamber, professionalizing critique and detaching scholarship from democratic engagement and solidarity with affected communities.
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#federal-funding
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 weeks ago

What are Trump's new rules for universities to qualify for federal funding?

Under the terms of the agreement laid out in the memo: Universities must ensure that admissions and financial support services disregard race and sex when admitting students and hiring staff and faculty. They must publicly share anonymised admissions data, including GPA and test scores, broken down by race, national origin and sex. All applicants to universities are required to take a standardised test, such as the SAT, before they can be admitted.
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fromLos Angeles Times
3 weeks ago

USC told to adopt Trump's conservative agenda in exchange for priority federal funding

The White House has asked the University of Southern California and eight other major universities to take a shift to the right and agree to President Trump's views on gender identity, admissions, diversity and free speech among other areas - in exchange for more favorable access to federal research grants and additional funding. Universities were asked to sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education" committing them to adopt the White House's conservative vision for America's campuses.
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fromAdvocate.com
3 weeks ago

Daily newsletter 10/1

➡️ The government has officially shut down, the third time this has happened under President Trump's leadership - and Democrats in the Congressional Equality Caucus wasted no time blaming the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Trump ally Michael Flynn urged a federal appeals court to uphold Trump's renewed ban on trans military service in a filing that reads like a culture war manifesto, and Texas is cracking down on state universities teaching about gender identity.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
4 weeks ago

Fighting Back Against "The War on Tenure"

At least five tenured faculty members have been terminated or put on leave over comments they made on social media following the killing of conservative firebrand Charlie Kirk. As tenured professors, in theory they should have some of the strongest job security protections in the country, especially when it comes to freedom of expression. But the speed with which they were punished for their speech suggests an erosion of tenure protections years in the making.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

Labour to bring back maintenance grants for students on priority' courses

Maintenance grants will be reinstated for low-income students on priority level-4 to -6 courses, funded by a proposed 6% international student levy.
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Trump administration's settlement proposal to UCLA - which includes a nearly $1.2-billion fine over allegations of antisemitism and civil rights violations - seeks to drastically overhaul campus practices on hiring, admissions, sports, scholarships, discrimination and gender identity, a Times review of the document shows. The 28-page letter - whose full contents have not been made public - also lays out in sweeping detail how it wants the university to enforce new policies that adhere to the president's conservative agenda.
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fromAxios
1 month ago

Exclusive: U.S. should take a chunk of universities' patent revenue, Lutnick says

Commerce Department proposes requiring universities to give the federal government a share of profits from patents arising from taxpayer-funded research, potentially half the benefits.
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fromNon Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly
1 month ago

Indiana Slashes Teacher Education Degrees amid a National Educator Shortage - Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly

Indiana public colleges will eliminate or restructure dozens of low-enrollment teacher education programs under a new law, aggravating the nationwide teacher shortage.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

Podcast: Ky. Tackles Credit for Prior Learning for Veterans

Approximately 65 percent of the 1.2 million active-duty service members in the U.S. armed forces have less than an associate degree level of education, according to 2023 data; many of them hold some college credits but no degree. Federal aid programs make enrolling in college and earning a degree more accessible for military-affiliated students, but not every student is aware of academic interventions that can help them complete a credential sooner, including credit for prior learning.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
1 month ago

UC System Warns of Broader Risks in Federal Funding Fight

UC president James B. Milliken wrote a letter to dozens of local elected officials Tuesday explaining that "the stakes are high and the risks are very real." The system's 10 institutions could lose billions of dollars in aid, forcing its leaders to make tough calls about staffing, the continuation of certain academic programs and more, he said. President Trump has already frozen more than $500 million in grants at UCLA, allegedly because the Justice Department accused the university of violating Jewish students' civil rights.
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fromTruthout
1 month ago
Higher education

Racist Lies About College "Quotas" Stoke Support for Trump's War on Higher Ed

fromTruthout
1 month ago
Higher education

Racist Lies About College "Quotas" Stoke Support for Trump's War on Higher Ed

fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

How Technology Can Smooth Pain Points in Credit Evaluation

Earlier this month, higher education policy leaders from all 50 states gathered in Minneapolis for the 2025 State Higher Education Executive Officers Higher Education Policy Conference. During a plenary session on the future of learning and work and its implications for higher education, Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn, reflected on the growing need for people to be able to easily build and showcase their skills.
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fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

Ohio State Restricts Decorations in Public Dorm Spaces

Ohio State University has advised resident advisers to restrict all dorm floor and common room decor-as well as welcome programming for incoming students-to "Ohio State spirit themes" to avoid offending or alienating students. That means motifs like "retro video games and SpongeBob" motifs, which one outraged former RA on Reddit said they decorated with, won't be allowed.
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fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
2 months ago

How universities can balance safeguarding and freedom of expression while protecting reputation - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com

Universities must balance legally protected freedom of expression with safeguarding duties through structured policies, transparent compliance, and clear conduct rules to manage risk.
Education
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

Students from Southeast Asia in demand at universities DW 08/08/2025

Foreign student caps are being raised in Australia and other countries, highlighting a regional trend toward increased international student mobility.
fromInside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs
2 months ago

Kent Confirmed as Under Secretary

Mr. Kent has demonstrated the temperament and approach needed to succeed as under secretary, which is no small thing. However, we also know that even as Mr. Kent will work to implement policies we may oppose, he will approach these disagreements with an open mind, centering students, taxpayers, and institutions while seeking the best outcome.
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fromwww.npr.org
6 months ago

Trump aims to lower drug prices. And, Harvard's tax-exempt status threatened

Trump's executive action seeks to lower drug prices by enhancing Medicare's negotiating capabilities and addressing flaws in current pricing laws.
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