Wow: Elise Stefanik Drops Out of N.Y. Governor’s Race and Will Leave Congress www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

AAUP Raises Alarm Over Palantir’s Work for Ed Department

The Year That Changed Research

Union Station remains unbearen

Research Groups Oppose Capping NIH Funding of Publisher Fees www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Pomona College, UC Settle Antisemitism Allegations (Pomona's settlement polices criticism of Zionism, and much more)

Purdue Allegedly Rejecting Chinese, Other ‘Adversary Nation’ Grad Students www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

This is heartbreaking

After Censoring Again, Weber State Says It Will Be ‘More Nuanced’ in Applying Law www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

N.Y. Archdiocese Will Negotiate Sex-Abuse Settlement for 1,300 Accusers www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/n...

Ed Dept. Calls Civil Rights Workers It’s Trying to Ax Back to Work www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Conservative Think Tank AEI Names Ben Sasse Senior Fellow

What a great wrapup of *gestures broadly* this year: The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lawsuit Accuses Hispanic Scholarship Fund of Illegal Discrimination www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

House GOP Accuses Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias as Dems Talk College Costs Republicans held a hearing airing accusations that the prestigious program heavily favors left-leaning candidates. No one from the scholarship foundation was invited. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

House GOP Accuses Truman Scholarship of Liberal Bias as Dems Talk College Costs www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Citing Anti-DEI DOJ Memo, Alabama Ends Black-, Women-Focused Student Magazines www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

"Last week, the Trump administration announced it was moving a raft of Congressionally required Education Department programs to other federal departments— a move that has some scholars who’ve studied the history of federal education policy scratching their heads."

The Students Studying 4—or More—Majors Some say they hope the many majors will help them stand out in the job market, though experts say the extra majors may not be of interest to employers. https://bit.ly/4pEnfyG #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

Universities May Lose State Dept. Partnership Due to Trump’s Anti-DEI Crusade www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Indiana May Reject New Degrees That Don’t Commit to “Values of American Society” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Trump’s Effort to Break Up ED Part of Long History A version of the department in 1867 lasted about a year before being demoted and not resurfacing until the Carter administration. Department or no, both Democrats and Republicans have expanded the federal role in education. https://bit.ly/4rfV4Yy

As we talk about the dismantling of ED, I’ve often wondered, “why do we have an Education Department anyway?” @ryanequinn.bsky.social answered my question and more in his latest. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Trump’s Effort to Break Up Education Dept. Part of Long History www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org

The Trump administration says California violates federal law by allowing undocumented immigrants who live in the state to pay the same reduced UC and CSU tuition rates as other in-state residents.

Judge Lets Group Defend Kentucky’s In-State Tuition for Undocumented Students www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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...

Remember Jamal Khashoggi.

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

Here's what we know about today's announcement regarding the dismantling of ED www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

@insidehighered.com has received multiple tips that the Department of Education will be signing a number of interagency agreements later today. The agreements would move the responsibilities of key offices to other departments. Stay tuned for more coverage.

From @emmawhitford.bsky.social "More than 4,400 of the NIH-funded trials focused on cancer, and 118 of them—2.7 percent—had their grants canceled." www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

As New Federal Research Funding Resumes, China May Already Be Outspending U.S. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

"If Mr. Carlson wanted to interview Mr. Fuentes, then 'get the word out,' Mr. Trump said. 'People have to decide. Ultimately people have to decide.'” And Vice President Vance is still silent: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...

Ky. Professor ‘Reassigned’ After Call for War on Israel Sues www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Judge: Trump Administration Can't ‘Blanket’ Deny UC New Grants or Demand Payout

Welp "An H.H.S. official, who asked for anonymity to speak about a personnel matter, described Dr. Norton as a radical leftist and said she was put on leave because she was criticizing the administration when she was supposed to be working."

UC Berkeley Turning Point Protests Spark Arrests, DOJ Probe www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Berkeley Law Dean Urges Supreme Court to Be ‘Guardrail of Our Democracy’ www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

this guy started the video with his qualifications as if there was any chance i wouldn’t trust this man about clocks

As ED Guts Its Civil Rights Office, Could States Step Up? www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

From @jessicablake.bsky.social, who is in the room, ED reached consensus on its proposed professional definition, which was released last night. So that's a wrap on this neg reg. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

University of Austin to End Tuition ‘Forever’ with Help of $100M Gift

Students, Unions to Protest Trump’s Higher Ed Agenda Friday www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Trump Research Funding Plans: Penalize ‘Repeat Players,’ Reward Compact Signers www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

A useful list of donors: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

21 States, D.C. Ask Court to Reverse Ed Department’s TRIO Grant Rejections www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Faculty union rep: “You can’t discriminate against someone based on foreign birth. My big question coming away from this is: Where’s the authority?” Florida public universities have employed nearly 3,000 people via the H-1B program since 2022.

DeSantis to Florida Universities: ‘Pull the Plug’ on H-1B Visa Workers www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...