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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. Yet the university managed to hang on by securing philanthropic gifts and a USDA loan.

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This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government

University Business

In a sudden public statement published last week, Grand Canyon University (Ariz.) believes government officials are waging “coordinat[ed] efforts to unjustly target GCU” in response to its lawsuit against the Department over its nonprofit status. “I said, ‘You know we are never going to agree with that.

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. Grade given by Deb Maue: A. In 2023, college enrollment continued its downward trajectory.

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Budget Freezes Are Coming for Higher Education

Robert Kelchen

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. During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020.

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Trump Administration Freezes $2.2 Billion in Harvard Funding Amid Campus Activism Dispute

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In an unprecedented move that signals escalating tensions between the federal government and higher education institutions, the Trump administration has frozen more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution refused to comply with demands to limit campus activism.

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Moody's Downgrades Higher Education Outlook to Negative as Federal Policy Changes Threaten Sector

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education sector from stable to negative, citing recent and potential federal policy changes that have created a more difficult operating environment for colleges and universities nationwide. Moody's Ratings has revised its outlook for the U.S. Staff reductions at the Department of Education (ED) pose another significant threat.

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‘The university will not surrender’: Harvard rejects Trump demands

University Business

The administration has targeted the funding of Harvard and dozens of other elite colleges and universities for their responses to protests against the war in Gaza. “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” Harvard’s lawyers wrote in a letter to the administration.