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Accreditation-Reform Hopes for the Second Trump Administration

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 […]

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Accreditors brace for Trump’s promised higher ed shakeup

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 […]

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U.S. Department of Education to Enforce 2020 Title IX Rule Protecting Women

U.S. Department of Education  January 31, 2025 Education Department will return to enforcing Title IX protections on the basis of biological sex in schools and on campuses Today, the U.S. Department of Education sent a “Dear Colleague” letter to K-12 schools and institutions of higher education advising educators and administrators that the department’s Office for […]

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The surprising force behind sturdy enrollment growth in higher ed

University Business Alcino Donadel January 30, 2025 For-profit colleges and universities faced considerable scrutiny and a watchful eye from the previous federal administration, but that didn’t stop their consistent rise over the past five years. For-profit institutions’ undergraduate enrollment increased by 21.5% from 2019 to 2024, experiencing positive year-over-year changes for four out of the five past […]

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