Inside Higher Ed Jessica Blake February 12, 2025 Recent executive actions related to education have colleges and Democrats worried, but key Republican lawmakers remain supportive of Trump’s pick to lead the Education Department. Linda McMahon—a former wrestling mogul and longtime ally of the president—will likely experience a smoother confirmation hearing Thursday […]
Inside Higher Ed Jessica Blake February 11, 2025 The president nominated a former lobbyist for career colleges to serve as education undersecretary—the nation’s top official on policies affecting colleges and universities. A vocal critic of the Biden administration will oversee the nation’s colleges and universities, according to a document obtained […]
Higher Ed Dive Ben Unglesbee and Natalie Schwartz January 31, 2025 At Council for Higher Education Accreditation’s annual conference, sector leaders shared the policy shifts they’re expecting under the new administration. WASHINGTON — On the 2024 campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the nation’s faculty of being “obsessed with indoctrinating […]
Update Ed Jessica S. High February 10, 2025 In 2020, the California State Legislature passed the California Consumer Financial Protection Law (“CCFPL’) as AB 1864. This law provided the Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (“DFPI”) with authority to oversee several areas of the financial marketplace, including private postsecondary education […]
CECU Career Education Colleges and Universities Litigation and Regulatory Update Through a novel and desperate approach, the Biden Department of Education late last year attempted to nullify the lawsuit brought by Cortiva Institute and the Coalition for Career Schools in the Northern District of Texas (360 Degree Education v. U.S. […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz January 31, 2025 We’re rounding up the trends, policy changes and legal shifts that college and university leaders could face in the year ahead. If January is any indication, major changes are likely coming to the higher education sector in the year ahead. President Donald Trump […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz January 31, 2025 We’re rounding up the trends, policy changes and legal shifts that college and university leaders could face in the year ahead. If January is any indication, major changes are likely coming to the higher education sector in the year ahead. President Donald Trump […]
Inside Higher Ed Liam Knox February 8, 2025 The Department of Education is ordering an end to all spending and programs that “promote gender ideology,” according to an internal email sent to all department employees and obtained by Inside Higher Ed. The email lays out steps the department will take […]
Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott February 7, 2025 Momentum is building around plans to dismantle the department, but what does it actually do for colleges, universities and their students? Republicans’ long-sought goal of shuttering the Education Department got a boost this week as several media outlets reported the Trump administration […]
Higher Ed Dive Natalie Schwartz February 6, 2025 The agency said it is investigating San José State University, the University of Pennsylvania and a middle and high school athletics association. Dive Brief: The U.S. Department of Education opened Title IX investigations Thursday into two universities and a middle and high school athletics […]