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Tens of Thousands of Qualified Nursing School Applications Are Rejected Each Year: Here’s Why

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April 11, 2026
Tens of thousands of qualified nursing school applications are turned away each year due to limited program capacity, despite an ongoing nurse shortage. In 2026, faculty shortages, restricted clinical placements, and funding constraints continue to create a major bottleneck in the nursing pipeline.
At a time when hospitals across the United States continue to face staffing shortages, one of the biggest barriers to solving the crisis is not a lack of interest in nursing. It is a lack of capacity in nursing education.

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Battles brew over in-state tuition for undocumented students

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Jessica Dickler
April 11, 2026
                At least 22 states allow undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition.
               For years, this has been a pathway to a postsecondary education for high school graduates who might otherwise be priced out of college.
               Now, however, a number of states are eliminating the tuition benefit, leaving some students in financial jeopardy.
A battle over in-state tuition for undocumented students has been heating up nationwide.
At least 22 states and the District of Columbia allow students — including those in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who are known as “Dreamers” — to pay in-state tuition at public colleges, regardless of their immigration status, according to the National Immigration Law Center. In order to qualify for the benefit, students generally must have attended a high school in the state for a certain number of years and graduated.
For more than two decades, this has been a pathway to a postsecondary education for students who might otherwise be priced out of college.
Initially, such policies had bipartisan approval. Texas was the first state to pass a law to allow undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition through the Texas Dream Act in 2001.

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More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows

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Jon Marcus
April 13, 2026
CRAFTSBURY COMMON, Vt. — More than a dozen newborn lambs cavorted around a fenced-in yard beneath the scrutiny of their mothers and a few watchful students taking turns attending to them.
The lambs’ successful births have been a needed bright spot at tiny Sterling College, which uses a 130-acre farm to teach agriculture and other disciplines in a part of northeastern Vermont so isolated there’s no cell service and it’s rare to see a passing car.
LillyAnne Keeley, a senior, likes that remoteness. “We have a beautiful view,” said Keeley, in the barn where she’s come for her turn checking on the lambs. “There are beautiful sunsets here. I kind of take it for granted every day.”

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New Accreditation Rules Could Open ‘Can of Worms’ in Higher Ed, Experts Say

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Jessica Blake
April 13, 2026
The draft proposals, up for discussion this week, could change how accreditors oversee colleges and what they measure, but some say they violate existing federal law.
Stakes are high as the Trump administration looks to rewrite the rules governing accreditation in the first of two week-long rule-making sessions starting today. The overhaul could dramatically change who is in charge of academic oversight and what they evaluate when determining whether an institution should have access to federal aid.
Right-leaning think tanks applaud the changes, released last week in a 151-page draft, calling them an overdue means to ensure campus civil rights compliance, address college costs and ensure institutions are held accountable for their students’ outcomes.
But accreditation experts, left-leaning policy analysts and student advocacy groups say the lengthy regulations, while vague and abstruse, pose a major threat to the future of institutional autonomy and America’s status as the crown jewel of global higher education.

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