Inside Higher Ed Katherine Knott February 4, 2025 The Pell Grant program has a $2.7 billion shortfall heading into the coming fiscal year, according to new projections from the Congressional Budget Office. The budget office said in June that the program would run a $11.4 billion surplus, though that assumption was based on a projected drop in financial […]
Read MoreInside Higher Ed Jessica Blake February 6, 2025 News reports about the potential executive order come after the Trump administration suspended dozens of department staff. The Trump administration is preparing an executive order to dismantle the Education Department, though the specifics are still in the works, two news outlets reported Monday. The Wall Street Journal first […]
Read More
Minding the Campus Samuel Negus January 31, 2025 Higher education seemingly played an important, if largely negative, role in the recent presidential election. Exit polls showed that non-college-educated voters overwhelmingly favored Donald Trump. Many voters associated Kamala Harris unfavorably with progressive trends and ideas prevalent on elite campuses, such as pro-Hamas protests and gender ideology. The election’s outcome has […]
Read More
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 America’s youth” and declared, “The […]
Read More