Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott July 23, 2024 She could become the first HBCU graduate in the Oval Office—and would likely build on the Biden administration’s ambitious higher ed agenda. President Biden’s decision Sunday to drop his re-election bid cleared the way for Vice President Kamala Harris to take his place […]
wcet Frontiers July 22, 2024 We’ve been waiting with bated breath to see if the U.S. Department of Education would surprise us when they released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and proposed regulations related to the most recent negotiated rulemaking. Spoiler alert, they have now released the NPRM with proposed […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott July 22, 2024 A federal judge denied the Biden administration’s request to narrow or delay a recent court hold blocking the Education Department from enforcing its new Title IX rule at hundreds of colleges across the country. The temporary injunction earlier this month from Judge John Broomes […]
Inside Higher Ed Lauren Coffey July 22, 2024 The Biden administration has pushed off new regs that have loomed over colleges and outside contractors for months. But the threat of them has already created waves across higher education. After months of promising regulations that could flip the world of online […]
Higher Ed Dive Ben Unglesbee July 19, 2024 Analysts with the ratings agency described a “tough year” in the higher ed world as revenue pressures ran into rising costs. Dive Brief: Fiscal 2023 was a “tough year” for private nonprofit colleges amid a “long trend of weakening demand,” S&P Global Ratings […]
Higher Ed Dive Ben Unglesbee July 15, 2024 Fitch Ratings found a 1.1% year-over-year increase in net tuition revenue for fiscal 2023, but this isn’t enough to preserve margins at private nonprofits. Dive Brief: Fitch Ratings found net tuition grew in fiscal 2023 among the colleges it rates but warned that the […]
Inside Higher Ed Steven Mintz July 18, 2024 Strategies for combating postcollege underemployment. Colleges and universities need to launch careers, not just produce graduates. Currently, however, many institutions aren’t doing enough to promote real-world, postgraduation career readiness. Especially at the campuses that serve the largest number of Pell Grant–eligible students, […]
Best Colleges Matthew Affojas July 18, 2024 If passed, the law would require for-profit institutions to generate at least 15% of their revenue from non-federal sources. A new bill proposes making it harder for for-profit colleges to rely on federal dollars. It would change the existing 90/10 rule into the […]
Inside Higher Ed Lauren Coffey July 18, 2024 New requirements for reporting cyberattacks would put undue stress on both small and large institutions, 16 organizations told the Department of Homeland Security in a letter. More than a dozen higher education–focused organizations are hitting back against a federal proposal that would […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott July 18, 2024 Higher ed wasn’t a top priority for Donald Trump when he first took office. But now that he and the GOP see attacking elite institutions and regulating colleges as winning political issues, a second term is likely to bring more aggressive policies. […]