Trump Administration

White House, and Kushner, Dig Into Higher Ed

White House, and Kushner, Dig Into Higher Ed

Higher Ed By  Andrew Kreighbaum As the Department of Education refines the next phase of its higher education agenda, the White House is apparently weighing in on the new policy direction. The special office headed by Jared Kushner, a senior adviser to and the son-in-law of President Trump, held a meeting […]

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DeVos to Announce New Push for Deregulation, Innovation

DeVos to Announce New Push for Deregulation, Innovation

Inside Higher Ed by Andrea Kreighbaum The Trump administration says it wants more innovation in higher education. And it believes rewriting the rules for college accrediting agencies is the best way to encourage innovation. In an exclusive interview with Inside Higher Ed, the administration’s top higher education official described the philosophy […]

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Report: Education Dept. Will End ‘Gainful’ Rules

Report: Education Dept. Will End ‘Gainful’ Rules

Inside Higher Ed by Doug Lederman The Education Department plans to eliminate rather than revise Obama-era rules that required for-profit and vocational programs to prove that they are preparing graduates for gainful employment, according to a memorandum obtained by The New York Times. A decision to pull the plug on the […]

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Trump Administration Backs Off Reshuffling of Student Debt Collection

Trump Administration Backs Off Reshuffling of Student Debt Collection

Inside Higher Ed By Andrew Kreighbaum An Education Department plan to begin cutting large debt collection firms out of the student loan system is on hold after Congress warned against move. The Department of Education planned this month to begin reshaping the role of private debt collection firms in handling […]

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How Institutions Can Continue to Attract International Students

How Institutions Can Continue to Attract International Students

Education Dive by Shalina Chatlani Dive Brief: International students face a number of concerns with language differences, family income, legal and regulatory constraints in a tight visa application process. They may also feel a sense of anxiety, especially now with a Supreme Court decision to uphold President Donald Trump’s travel ban, wrote Brad […]

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Trump Wants to Drastically Alter the Education Dept. Here’s What You Need to Know

Trump Wants to Drastically Alter the Education Dept. Here’s What You Need to Know

Chronicle by Sarah Brown U.S. Department of Education and the Workforce? That’s what the Trump administration envisions in its new 132-page framework for merging the Education and Labor Departments, as part of a broader overhaul of the federal government. The departments, officials wrote in the proposal, “share a common goal […]

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Trump Administration to Seek Merger of Education, Labor Departments

Trump Administration to Seek Merger of Education, Labor Departments

Politico By Caitlin Emma and Michael Stratford The Trump administration plans to advocate a merger of the Education and Labor departments as part of a sweeping government overhaul, according to two individuals familiar with the proposal who declined to be named because it’s not yet public. The new combined agency, […]

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