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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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NADOHE Panel: Colleges Must Prepare for Affirmative Action Verdicts Now

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? DEI officers, it seems, are in for a long stretch of hard work. Could future applicants be prevented from speaking fully about their racial identities? Could a decision impact eligibility for scholarships?

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. Colleges tapped into their endowments for a variety of reasons, but primarily for student financial aid.

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President moves: New hires, plus retiring leaders being lauded for their pandemic strategy

University Business

In the 18 short months that Lynch led CSI, he has championed diversity, equity and inclusion and increased the institution’s financial health. Specifically, he oversaw increased diversity among his faculty and staff and created a new cabinet position overseeing DEI and belonging. million for technology upgrades. president. “It

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Washington Update: Dismantling the Department of Education and Redefining Oversight for Higher Ed: Changing Higher Ed podcast 252 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Tom Netting

The Change Leader, Inc.

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. However, civil rights functions extend well beyond DEI.

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McMahon: Funding is safe but mass layoffs are “first step” to full closure

University Business

She told Fox News that the Department of Education staffers who were not terminated are involved in managing “outward-facing” programs such as Pell and student loans. The administration has gone further, according to ProPublica. These students and staff could then be investigated and removed, the order says.