Duane Morris November 20, 2025 Employers should take note of a new California law taking effect January 1, 2026, that restricts entering into contracts that require a worker to stay with the employer or pay for certain expenses advanced by or on behalf of the employer. Assembly Bill 692, passed […]
U.S. Department of Education November 19, 2025 Today, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon and Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent participated in a roundtable discussion with university leaders, think tank professionals, and education advocates about the need for bold reforms to restore public confidence in higher education. The roundtable, […]
AEI Preston Cooper November 18, 2025 The pandemic-era student loan payment pause, which effectively ended just last year, has left a lasting hangover. Recently, the Education Department provided new data (published by New America here) showing that nearly 12 million borrowers are behind on their federal student loans in some way. […]
Federal Register November 20, 2025 AGENCY: Federal Student Aid (FSA), Department of Education (ED). In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, the Department is proposing an extension without change of a currently approved information collection request (ICR). DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or […]
NASFAA Maria Carrasco November 19, 2025 The House Education & Workforce Committee met on Tuesday to discuss how innovative technologies and initiatives in higher education could be used to lower costs to students and families. The hearing touched on multiple technologies and initiatives done through institutions and states, and included […]
Inside Higher Ed Diane Auer Jones November 19, 2025 The current model has fueled credential inflation in the health sciences. During the first Trump administration, we promulgated new regulations for accrediting agency recognition that restored a college’s freedom to select an institutional accrediting agency that best aligns with its mission, purpose […]
Fox News Emma Colton November 18, 2025 The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the Department of Education signed a series of interagency agreements to shift power from a handful of its offices and programs to other federal agencies as it works to dismantle the federal department for good. “The Trump Administration is […]
U.S. Department of Labor November 18, 2025 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Departments of Labor and Education today announced new interagency agreements to break up the federal education bureaucracy, ensure efficient delivery of funded programs, and move closer to fulfilling the President’s promise to return education to the states. By partnering with agencies […]
Higher Ed Dive Kara Arundel November 18, 2025 Interagency agreements would shift management of six department programs, including certain grants for higher education institutions, to other agencies. The U.S. Department of Education is transferring management of six programs to other federal agencies in the Trump administration’s continued push to eventually close the […]
Inside Higher Ed Emma Whitford November 17, 2025 Employers are increasingly using skills-based hiring processes that value college internship and co-op experience over GPAs. Forty-five percent of employers consider the job market to be “fair,” and they are projecting a 1.6 percent year-over-year increase in hiring for the Class of […]