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Here are states’ top 10 priorities for higher education in 2024

University Business

Some of the sector’s most pressing issues are defending its relevancy and value for attractive employment opportunities, staving off precarious federal funding distribution due to a shaky FAFSA rollout and changes to Title IX funding and addressing campus climate and free speech.

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Top 12 Challenges Facing Higher Ed in 2025—and the Exemplars Solving Them: An overview of the most urgent issues impacting higher education, with examples of how some institutions are beginning to respond.

The Change Leader, Inc.

For smaller schools and those with limited endowments, the lack of diversified revenue sources exacerbates the problem, making financial sustainability an existential concern. For example, discussions around loan forgiveness, free community college, or changes to Title IX can directly impact institutional operations.

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New Congress Augurs Investigations, Little Legislation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sosanya Jones, associate professor in the School of Education at Howard University Such issues are expected to include the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program, Title IX as applied to transgender students, freedom of speech on campus, critical race theory, and the expenditure of COVID-19 relief funds.

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ACE Reviews a Year of High Policy Hopes and Small Accomplishments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Perhaps the most significant public policy moment for colleges and universities this year was the failure of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better (BBB) legislation, after the administration and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin could not at arrive at a deal.

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Politics and Policy Making in the Postsecondary Sector

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College presidents and other high-level administrators have been active in negotiated rule making in the past, so this is a matter higher education leaders should particularly watch in 2023. Another key takeaway of my book is that, even though “education” is not mentioned in the U.S.

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Education Department outlines 'ambitious' regulatory agenda

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A final set of regulations overhauling Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is expected in May, according to the agenda. Plus, the department is still planning to issue a separate notice of proposed rules governing transgender students’ involvement in sports.

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Biden administration to rescind part of Trump's free inquiry rule

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Colleges found in violation of that prohibition would lose access to grant programs administered directly by the department and indirectly through the states—but not federal financial aid. The conditions included the religious student organization provision that the administration now wants to rescind.