I'm over the moon that @bakerdphd.bsky.social has come on board as an @insidehighered.com's columnist. Her smart, informed and considered voice is a welcome addition to the Opinions side of the house

I'm also in wait-and-see mode on the effects of caps on grad student loans. My big questions are: (1) Can the private market scale up in time? (2) Do students even want private loans? (3) Will grad programs change admissions practices? www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

In all of history, nothing bad has ever happened when a government asks for a list of the names of Jews @insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The five higher ed figures who appear most frequently in the Epstein emails released on November 12th. @emmawhitford.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

And ED makes it official. Numerous programs are getting shipped out to four different agencies. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

With new caps on federal student loans, the private lending sector is going to get very interesting. Like Sallie Mae selling a seed portfolio of student loans to an investment firm and committing to selling $2 billion more annually for the next three years. finance.yahoo.com/news/sallie-...

I'm back on The Key this week with @saracuster.insidehighered.com. We talk about Dancing with the Stars, the romance novel I'm trying to write and all the news from the last month. www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key...

Another college closure, this time nearly 900 students' educations are disrupted and 126 faculty are losing their jobs. @byjoshmoody.bsky.social dug into Trinity Christian College's finances and found that 76% of contributions came from just 3 donors in 2024 www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

The buzzword at Educause this year was "consolidation". Colleges are "shopping their closets" one ed tech leader told me in an effort to find efficiencies and cost savings in their digital ecosystems. Here's my full report www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Inbox: New College of Florida wants to be the first to sign on to the Trump administration's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.

And if you're wondering what *exactly* those individual responses say– and don't say– @byjoshmoody.bsky.social spoke to some rhetoric and communication experts to read between the lines www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

We're keeping track of how universities have the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education (will we ever call it Kay-He??) So far 10 colleges have rejected it and two said they'll "provide feedback". www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

UVA essentially agreed to follow this DOJ memo www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

We're hiring! Come work with me @insidehighered.com ihe.teamtailor.com/jobs/6648965...

Amber Northern, the special adviser tasked with reforming IES, will giver her report in Dec. But with the government shutdown and staff cuts can she deliver? @ryanequinn.bsky.social looks into the confusion surrounding the future of federal education data www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Today is the deadline for the nine original invitees to provide feedback on the White House’s compact. So far none have accepted it wholesale- Vanderbilt said it would provide feedback. Silence from UT Austin. @byjoshmoody.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

The University of Arizona has given a non-answer on joining the Compact of Academic Excellence in Higher Education (as did Washington University in St. Louis) earlier today. UA President Suresh Garimella wrote that he welcomes "the opportunity to engage" in a letter to Linda McMahon.

Today’s the feedback deadline for the compact, and I broke down what we know about the document so far here from why the White House is taking this approach to what could happen to those who reject it. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

In the past 24 hours, two more colleges have rejceted the compact. That leaves Arizona, UT Austin & Vanderbilt of the original 9 who haven’t responded. Monday is the deadline. @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

BREAKING: The White House has confirmed it's called the 5 institutions who haven't signed its compact to a meeting this afternoon. Insiders tell us it's "an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign" @knottkatherine.bsky.social has the scoop www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

As far as we know, 500 employees at ED were fired today. A senior department leader told @jessicablake.bsky.social that the directive came from Ross Vought's OMB and took the department by surprise. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

MIT rejects federal compact: www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Saudi Arabia Approves Branch Campus for Longtime Partner U of New Haven www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

If the shutdown is short it will cause little disruption to higher ed. The risk increases the longer it draws out. Here's what to watch for as the showdown in Congress continues. From @knottkatherine.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Texas A&M University President Mark Welsh stepped down amid calls for his head by Republican lawmakers who accused him of pushing "leftist DEI" and "transgender indoctrination." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Political makeup of the student body is now as much a part of students' choice of college as academic quality or a location closer to home @j-alonso.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Amid growing attacks on scholarship, 2/3 of provosts in @insidehighered.com 's annual survey say their institution has formally extended academic freedom policies to non-tenure-track faculty, and another 4% are considering it. @emmawhitford.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Despite saying it would fund TRIO for 2025, ED has not paid about $660 million worth of aid for more than 2,000 programs, advocacy groups say. Those include Veterans Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Centers & Talent Search @jessicablake.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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Two administrators are now out of a job and a graduate student lost an internship after making comments online that downplayed or celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk @emmawhitford.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Charlie Kirk Killing Feeds Fears for Higher Ed’s Future

In my interview with Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps and One Small Step, he said: "It's our patriotic duty to see the humanity in people with whom we disagree." I've got conflicting feelings around being patriotic but I can get behind Dave's interpretation www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key...

Trump’s proposal to cut the NIH’s budget by 43% would cause thousands of job losses in college towns, including Madison, Charlottesville & Gainesville, all of which receive about $700 in NIH money per resident per year. @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Charlie Kirk, the person who brought conservative political activism to college campuses, was killed at a Turning Point USA rally at Utah Valley University today. @ryanequinn.bsky.social is reporting this developing story www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

In case you're not aware of what programs the education secretary just said she's going to stop funding, here's @saraweissman.insidehighered.com 's excellent explainer on MSIs www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

After a court order in June killed the Texas Dream Act, public colleges can no long extend in-state tuition to undocumented students. Thousands are now left wondering how – or if – they can finish their degrees. @saraweissman.insidehighered.com reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Yesterday, the Trump administration launched the “state plan portal” that will allow the Department of Labor to jointly administer adult education programs with ED. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Two accreditors are rolling out assessments and standards for non-credit programs in and outside of colleges. The question now is: will this help tame the Wild West of microcredentials? @saraweissman.insidehighered.com reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Susan D'Agostino began doing public scholarship as a side hustle to her math professor gig. Two books and many op-eds later, she's now writing a column for Inside Higher Ed to give people the advice she wishes she had when she was just getting started. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

@j-alonso.bsky.social spoke with students in Libya and Myanmar about how the newest travel ban has impacted their dreams of studying in the U.S. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Is anyone surprised that state data collection on non-credit programs isn't adequate for determining if they'll qualify for new workforce Pell? Probably not. But good to have data to confirm it. @saraweissman.insidehighered.com reports www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The fact that so few colleges are willing to publicly talk about student visa issues says a lot about the state of higher education as the new academic year gets underway. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

The IHE newsroom’s poll of the day continues to fearlessly probe for the truth

Students said Ohio State leadership and SB1 have "sucked the life out of literally everything.” An RA is angry their SpongeBob dorm decorations will have to be replaced with Buckeye-themed motifs. Even necklace making and mug decorating has to be OSU themed. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

"Leaps of logic", "gross mischaracterizations of statements made by Dr. Washington", claims that are "bordering on the absurd"– GMU's president vehemently rejects OCR report claiming he implemented unlawful DEI policies. @byjoshmoody.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

The DOJ said it won't defend the Hispanic Serving Institutions program against a lawsuit alleging the way HSIs are currently defined is unconstitutional. @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...