Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 21, 2025
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker A legislative initiative backed by Illinois Governor JB Pritzker that would allow community colleges to offer four-year bachelor's degrees in high-demand fields has temporarily stalled in the state's General Assembly, with lawmakers raising concerns about potential impacts on minority-serving institutions. The bill, which was one of Gov.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
The University of California Systems president announced a systemwide hiring freeze and other cost-saving measures, such as delaying maintenance and reducing business travel where possible. Because every UC location is different, these plans will vary, president Michael V. Drake said in a Wednesday letter to the campuses of one of the countrys largest higher education systems.
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Roompact
MARCH 21, 2025
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Gray Associates
MARCH 21, 2025
Should you launch, grow, or rethink your Business Analytics masters program? Recent data reveals surging student demand, strong career outcomes, and signs of sustained growth. But there's a catch: regional market saturation could limit your success if not carefully assessed. Discover how national trends, employment metrics, and competitive intensity intersectand what your institution can do to stand out in this fast-growing, high-stakes program space.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has canceled nearly 400 of the National Agricultural Librarys roughly 2,000 journal subscriptions, Science reported this week.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 21, 2025
John Katzman is the founder and CEO of Noodle. Prior to Noodle, he founded and ran 2U, which is also involved in online learning, and The Princeton Review, which helps students find, get into, and pay for higher ed. Katzman is the co-author of five books and has served as a director of several for- and non-profits, including Carnegie Learning, Renaissance Learning, the National Association of Independent Schools, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the National Alliance of Public Char
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
A federal judge recently dismissed claims that Drake University defamed Des Moines Area Community College, the latest development in a fraught trademark battle between the two institutions, the Des Moines Register reported. Their ongoing legal dispute, which began last summer, is over the letter D.
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Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Steven Thrasher, an assistant journalism professor who tried to block police from breaking up a pro-Palestinian encampment at Northwestern University last spring, announced he was denied tenure and will lose his job in August 2026, the end of the next academic year.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 21, 2025
As campus workers and citizens, educators and researchers, staff, students, and university community members, we exercise a powerful collective voice in advancing the democratic mission of our colleges and universities. It is our labor and our ideas which sustain higher education as a project that preserves and extends social equality and the common goodas a project of social emancipation.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
With Friends Like These, Who Needs Authoritarians? johnw@mcsweeneys.net Fri, 03/21/2025 - 03:00 AM Bret Stephens gets schooled by experts. Will it matter?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 21, 2025
Emil Guillermo Are you or your kids ready for Harvard? Its free. As in F-R-E-E, free. At least for most families where the household income is $200,000 or below. Of course, you still have to pass the standards of the schools admissions board. But dont assume that means straight-As and perfect scores. You can just be you. If you feel you are truly special and worthy.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
A Way to Honor the Teach-in Movement at 60 Elizabeth Redden Fri, 03/21/2025 - 03:00 AM Its time for another national teach-in movement, Robert Cohen writes.
University Business
MARCH 21, 2025
The Trump administration recently announced it was slashing the federal Education Department’s workforce in half. This week the president signed an executive order declaring he was dismantling the agency “once and for all.” In the interim, people he pushed out the door were quietly rehired. An internal organizational chart obtained by USA TODAY shows roughly three dozen technology experts were reinstated after being laid off from the Federal Student Aid office, the marquee divi
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Congress Eyes More Control Over Colleges jessica.blake@ Fri, 03/21/2025 - 03:00 AM Lawmakers have introduced dozens of bills related to higher education, according to a new searchable database from Inside Higher Ed. Taken together, the proposals offer a sketch of the Republican agenda to crack down on colleges.
Higher Education Inquirer
MARCH 21, 2025
Yesterday, President Trump signed an executive order ordering the shutdown of the U.S. Department of Education (ED). The order claims to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of services, programs, and benefits on which Americans rely, yet Trump and Secretary Linda McMahon have gutted the arms of ED that make those functions possible. Read our statement on yesterdays executive order here.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Columbia Agrees to Trump's Demands Josh Moody Fri, 03/21/2025 - 05:13 PM The university has agreed to a sweeping list of demands from the Trump administration to address alleged antisemitism, despite legal and academic freedom concerns.
University Business
MARCH 21, 2025
Until recently, it was a little-known program to help Black and Latino students pursue business degrees. But in January, conservative strategist Christopher Rufo flagged the program known as The PhD Project in social media posts that caught the attention of Republican politicians. The program is now at the center of a Trump administration campaign to root out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Academic Publishers Braced for Slowdown as Trump DEI Purge Bites sara.custer@in Fri, 03/21/2025 - 03:00 AM Defunding of diversity-related research may deter American university libraries from buying titles in contentious topic areas, publishers fear.
University Business
MARCH 21, 2025
From “creative destruction” to “political theater,” education leaders are not mincing words about President Donald Trump’s executive order to begin shutting down the Department of Education. While a federal agency can only be closed by an act of Congress, the Trump administration is whittling down the department’s staff and responsibilities.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Trumps Latest Target: Foreign Scholars Liam Knox Fri, 03/21/2025 - 03:00 AM As the administration continues its crackdown on noncitizens in higher ed, international academics face ICE raids, deportation and challenges at the border.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Tracking Congresss Higher Ed Bills Welcome Inside Higher Ed's legislation tracker, a database of the key higher-ed related bills lawmakers have proposed in Congress. Few will likely become law, but the proposals offer insights into how Republicans and Democrats want to reshape the sector.
Confessions of a Community College Dean
MARCH 21, 2025
Trumps Plan to Move Student Loans to SBA Raises Concerns Katherine Knott Fri, 03/21/2025 - 06:19 PM The administration, which wants to close the Education Department, hasnt said how it would move the $1.7 trillion portfolio to a new agency. Democrats say doing so would be a clear violation of the law.
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