Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 13, 2025

We also find critical historical analysis essential when we think about US higher education and student loan debt from a People's perspective. This lesson is especially important if the US government decides to get out of the student loan business or reduce government oversight of student loans.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

[Editor's note: The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) was authorized and reconstituted by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008. They issued a warning and ordered a team visit for February 2024. After a team visit in February 2024 ( NSAD - Team Report SV fall 2023.pdf

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

Image: Presentation College in South Dakota announced its impending closure this week, making it the latest higher education casualty in a sector squeezed by slumping enrollment and rising costs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C., He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

While caveats apply, established universities must now conduct research at “world standard” in at least half the broad fields of education they teach. The body charged with enforcing this obligation is the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), the brainchild of late higher education reviewer Denise Bradley.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2023

On June 21, 2023, the State of Florida filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education, Florida vs Department of Education. This lawsuit has the potential to change how much influence state governments can have on both higher education accreditation and their institutions. This isn’t how it always was.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

It was through that work and some inspiring mentorship that I received that I came to appreciate the potential for higher education to be a powerful gateway to economic opportunity in our society. There are so many things going on with the economy and especially with people’s perception of higher education.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

Data from the Department of Education show that the number of student loan borrowers with a defaulted loan increased by 230 percent from 3.8 20 Due to these factors, the total amount of Social Security benefits the Department of Education collected between 2001 and 2019 through the offset program increased annually from $16.2

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

And no wonder—in 1990, state-per-student funding was almost 140% more than that of the federal government. But in the last two decades, the gap between state and federal funding narrowed, with state funding per student only 12% above federal levels in 2015. And presidents know it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

That’s because the amount that students can borrow from the federal government is pretty limited, and the majority of students are already borrowing that maximum.” Kelchen also argued that changing IDR rules is not the best use of higher education money. “It The new IDR rules are currently in a period of public comment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

“Through our ongoing partnership, we are committed to taking education and corporate America higher by advancing academic research, ensuring student success at publicly supported HBCUs and serving as a liaison to the federal government and local officials for our members and their students.” Nicholas D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. He says the idea for the bill came “from the failure of the federal government regarding immigration policy, especially when it comes to young people who often come here as infants.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

Im incredibly proud of the Biden-Harris Administrations historic achievements in making the life-changing potential of higher education more affordable and accessible for more people. Today, the Department also announced the completion of the IDR payment count adjustment, correcting eligible payment counts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

As we work tirelessly to navigate the polarizing currents of the 2024 election year, witnessing the gross erosion of DEI initiatives and the rollback of affirmative action, the pivotal role of these institutions and leaders becomes even more crucial.” The event was hosted by Virginia Union University and Rice University.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

These arrangements became more contentious as the cost of higher education continued to rise, particularly in the case of online degrees. Critics argue that the large sums taken by OPMs like Risepoint divert essential funds from universities, leading to higher tuition fees and contributing to the growing student debt crisis.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

Department of Education to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) toward providing relief to borrowers experiencing hardship — is a response to recent federal court injunctions blocking portions of the administration’s Saving on a Valuable Education Repayment Plan, known as SAVE.

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University Business

MAY 2, 2024

The state of emergency he declared Wednesday allows students to qualify for the state’s largest financial aid programs—including the Promise Scholarship and the Higher Education Grant Program—without filling out the FAFSA application. Jim Justice to take action on financial aid. 1, the Times added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2025

million in contracts between Columbia and the federal government and conduct a "comprehensive review" of more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments to the institution. Federal funding constituted approximately $1.3 billion of Columbia's annual operating revenue in the 2024 fiscal year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Defenders of anti-racism in higher education have had a hellacious year. Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. But experts warn that conservative attacks on higher education aren’t going away any time soon.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 14, 2024

Since 2016, the Higher Education Inquirer has documented the College Meltdown as a series of demographic and business trends making US higher education of decreasing value to working-class and middle-class folks. Public opinion about higher education and the value of higher education has been waning.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 29, 2025

This report examines the details of these projection changes and analyzes the operational costs of the Federal Student Aid (FSA) program. The 2024 CBO Projections: A Reversal of Fortune The CBO's updated budget projections released in 2024 reveal a stark shift in the expected financial performance of the federal student loan program.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 27, 2025

Impact of Department of Education Dismantlement on Higher Education Act Programs On March 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education, a move that threatens to create significant upheaval across higher education's federal support system.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

The plan, which calls for the $90 billion to be spread out over 10 years, was part of the administration’s fiscal year 2024 budget proposal to Congress released last week. ” The $500 million in discretionary funding is a new ask for the administration.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

ACCSC removed Atlantis from warning status by February 2024. Whatever problems the many blacked-out passages of the October 2023 letter concealed stood in sharp contrast to ACCSC’s unconditional five-year renewal of Atlantis in December 2022.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

26 December · Episode 187 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions 55 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024. Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That practice of branding migrants as a perpetual “other” has reemerged in the 2024 presidential election. During the September 2024 presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump repeated the lie that “ In Springfield, they're eating the dogs. The people that came in. They're eating the cats.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2024

The rules – released April 2024 after being announced in 2022 – represented a landmark effort to solidify discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as violations of Title IX as well as to counteract the Trump Administration’s stricter ways of defining and determining sexual harassment.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 24, 2025

From 2016 to 2025, Trumps war on education has manifested through a series of legislative actions, executive orders, and cultural provocations that aimed to reshape the American education system. These efforts have targeted everything from public schools to higher education institutions, and even the very curriculum taught to students.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2025

With massive staff reductions, rollback of key civil rights regulations, and a stunning shift of student loan collection authority to the Small Business Administration, higher education institutions now face a regulatory landscape unlike any before. Three Takeaways for Higher Education Presidents and Boards 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

That said, a politicized attack on higher education is not the answer. It also demonstrates that the lines of attack on higher education are not just about antisemitism. Miller was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Higher Education Programs at the U.S. And our students deserve that.

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University Business

MARCH 19, 2025

Colleges and universities will have to begin looking elsewhere for funding and support as the Trump administration continues to shrink federal spending on higher education. The Department of Education dolled out $85.8 billion worth of federal loans to 6.7

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Insights on New Policies in Higher Education This episode of Washington Update examines the dire need for HEA reauthorization. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Netting focus on the Higher Education Act of 2019 (HEA), the FAFSA Simplification Act, and various Title regulations.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 28, 2025

The future of the US Department of Education: 8 tips for journalists covering the agency under Trumps second term by Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource January 23, 2025 The U.S. Department of Education, one of the federal governments smallest Cabinet-level agencies, operates programs across every level of education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 30, 2024

30 January · Episode 192 Strategic Presidential Communication in Higher Education 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This episode addresses the required strategic presidential communication training, planning, practice, and consequences for presidents and boards. Institutions continues.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Carl Barney, the ultra-wealthy former owner of a chain of collapsed for-profit colleges, is the third biggest California-based donor to efforts to elect Donald Trump in 2024, the Los Angeles Times reports today. Barney has donated $924,600 to the Trump 47 Committee, according to federal records.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As we approach the last leg of the 2024 presidential race, safeguarding voting rights requires the same dogged tenacity that was central to Lewis’s legacy. Pre-clearance gave the federal government the power to monitor abuses in states with histories of racially discriminatory electoral practices. Holder case a decade ago.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 10, 2025

They had benefitted when, during Trumps first term, his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, largely ended federal regulatory and enforcement efforts to hold for-profit schools accountable for deceiving students and ripping off taxpayers. Department of Education.

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