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Why community colleges can’t be fixed — they must be rebuilt

Community College Daily  Mordecai Ian Brownlee January 15, 2026 As America’s demographic, economic, political and technological realities continue to shift, so too do society’s expectations of higher education and its community colleges. Resilient by Design, recently published by the American Association of Community Colleges, is a transformative guide for institutions to embrace the reality that resilience is not about absorbing disruption, […]

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Trump Administration Begins to Send ED Employees to DOL

NASFAA Maria Carrasco January 16, 2026 The Trump administration on Thursday announced its next steps to dismantle the Department of Education (ED) by sending higher education agency staff over to the Department of Labor (DOL) beginning next week, a move that is also complicating congressional negotiations over ED’s annual funding. Staff in the Higher Education Programs (HEP) Division of […]

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Five Takeaways From the Higher Ed Accountability Rulemaking

AEI Preston Cooper January 15, 2026 Colleges which fail to deliver a return on investment for their graduates have been put on notice. Last week, the Education Department convened a negotiated rulemaking committee to draft implementing regulations for a section of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) that holds colleges accountable for students’ earnings outcomes. The […]

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Low-Earning Degrees Will Soon Lose Access to Federal Loans—Is Yours on the List?

AEI Preston Cooper January 15, 2026 The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB) created a new system of accountability for higher education programs that depend on federal subsidies—colloquially known as the “Do No Harm” principle. Degrees and certificates which fail to increase their graduates’ earnings potential are on notice—within a couple years, they could lose […]

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