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University Business
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. Senators are now working to create stronger federal oversight over state funding. billion in fiscal year 2020.
Robert Kelchen
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Im now a veteran department head at a much better resourced university, but higher education is facing more uncertainty now than since March 2020 due to the bulldozer of the Trump administrations attempted and proposed changes.
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Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 24, 2025
In 2020, following the Black Lives Matter protests, Trump launched the 1776 Commission , a response to what he viewed as a growing movement to rewrite American history. Meanwhile, the University of Pennsylvania also experienced significant financial strain due to cuts in federal contracts, which impacted their research funding and innovation.
Higher Education Inquirer
JANUARY 16, 2025
billion in loan debt cancellation for 261,000 borrowers who attended for-profit Ashford University between March 2009 and April 2020. It also announced it would seek to ban Andrew Clark, the CEO of Ashfords demised parent company, Zovio, from contracting with the federal government.
Higher Education Inquirer
OCTOBER 31, 2024
While Barney concedes that he does not like Trump’s “proposed tariffs and some of his economics,” he likes that Trump “wants to work with Elon Musk to reduce spending, regulations, waste, and fraud in the federal government. What doesn’t Barney like about Kamala Harris? Soon after, the U.S.
University Business
MARCH 12, 2025
(LATEST UPDATE: March 12) Student loans and Pell Grants are safe, but this week’s mass firings at the Department of Education represent the “first step” of President Donald Trump’s plan to shut down the agency, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says.
University Business
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. The university was one of 20 recipients to receive the grant.
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