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...

In its latest Dear Colleague letter, ED said colleges cannot use Federal Work-Study funds to pay students to work on voter registration efforts using this very reasonable and not at all over-literal interpretation of "political activity" www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

I'm thrilled to be back! Working on my Bluesky feed, so academics--please say hi!

Today is @emmawhitford.bsky.social 's first day back at IHE! She previously covered leadership for us, left for a bit and is now back in the newsroom to cover the faculty beat. Send news tips to [email protected] #higheredsky #academicsky

In our latest flash poll of students nationwide, we asked about their trust in higher ed. Most students trust their own college but their trust in higher ed as a whole drops after they start studying. Low affordability and faculty behavior were two of the biggest influencers on student trust.

New research from Burning Glass concludes that only one in eight nondegree credentials yielded meaningful gains in earnings a year later. Given that returns to short-term certificates typically fade over time, this is not a great outcome. (gift link)

UChicago, which faces debt issues, has become yet another example of well-known universities freezing or scaling back Ph.D. admissions and programs amid financial pressures and other factors @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

Fake colleges aren't new. But a network uncovered by @byjoshmoody.bsky.social and @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social reveals how the rise of gen AI is making it faster and easier for scammers to repackage an old ruse and deploy it on a much larger scale. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

And now, some levity from Jennifer Lundquist: "Academic Freedom, Suckers! You thought academic freedom meant hiring the best scholars, encouraging debate and letting a thousand ideas bloom. HILARIOUS!" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Former Education Secretary William Bennett, who served in the the Reagan administration, sent a letter to Linda McMahon seeking to deflect recent conservative criticism of Qatar. Bennett is serving as a lobbyist for Qatar. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

A new law in Texas created an ombudsman tasked with ensuring institutions comply with all terms of SB 37. The risk of losing state funding for non-compliance hangs like a “sword of Damocles” over institutions, one critic said. @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

The government is seeking $1 billion from a publicly-funded institution www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Thanks to @sonelcutler.bsky.social for answering this question and confirming that Columbia's $200m will not go to toward safeguarding civil rights on campus but will be deposited directly into the U.S. Treasury's general account. www.chronicle.com/article/wher...

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Oklahoma following Texas's lead in immediately agreeing with a DOJ challenge to state law. Stunning. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

In addition to Susan D'Agostino and John K. Wilson joining IHE as columnist, we've got a new-old author back in the seat: Matt Reed is once again giving his "Confessions of a Community College Dean" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

This, from Susan D’Agostino, is an excellent start to her new monthly column, “The Public Scholar." Highly recommend!

Columbia settles after months of federal scrutiny www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

I asked my students a warm up question for class back in the fall— “if you could only keep three apps on your phone, which ones would you keep?”— and something like 1/3rd of the 75 person class had a betting app in those three apps listed. Really worried for this generation of students.

@jessicablake.bsky.social spoke to financial student aid officers on the frontlines grappling with staff cuts at ED. Phone calls go unanswered. Field offices have been shuttered. “Our communities are just not getting answers to questions that they have." www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Has anyone in the higher ed hive seen this before? UVA is seeking nominations for an interim president www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

4 Things to Know About In-State Tuition Benefits for Undocumented Students The federal government is suing states that offer in-state tuition to noncitizens. These state laws were once bipartisan efforts. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/44E4zrw

I got @knottkatherine.bsky.social back on the podcast to tell us whether ED can possibly make all the policy changes in the Big Beautiful Bill due next summer with half the staff (I think you know the answer) and to chat about the DOJ's pressure campaign on UVA www.insidehighered.com/podcasts/key...

The BOG unanimously approved the new agency after repeatedly pushing back, arguing that the plans for starting an accreditor from scratch were half-baked and raising a litany of questions about how it would work in practice. By @saraweissman.insidehighered.com www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Today the Florida BoG will vote on forming a new accreditor. If passed, five other state systems will join the agency that will, among other things, "ensure no imposition of divisive ideological content on institutions". @saraweissman.insidehighered.com reports www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...

NIH takes aim at exorbitant publishing fees. Open access advocates say calling out the fees is good but argue capping them isn't the solution. Jay Bhattacharya, head of the NIH, says caps will make science "more democratic" @kathrynpalmer.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...