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Inside Higher Ed policy reporter
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Rothman is out in what one Republican state lawmaker called a âblatant partisan hatchet job.â More from
@byjoshmoody.bsky.social
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Wisconsin System Fires President
The Universities of Wisconsin system board fired President Jay Rothman in a meeting that lasted just over 30 minutes and yielded few insights on the decision. Republican state lawmakers condemned the ...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/governance/trustees-regents/2026/04/07/wisconsin-system-fires-president
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Trump Once Again Pushes Steep Education, Research Cuts
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5 Things to Know About Trumpâs Latest Budget Proposal
Congress broadly rejected the presidentâs proposed gutting of research funding agencies for this fiscal year. But his new budget proposal still attacks them, and ED. Here are our five takeaways.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2026/04/06/5-things-know-about-trumps-latest-budget-proposal
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being a parent with ADHD of children with ADHD is kinda like herding cats but Iâm also one of the cats
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âPotentially Existentialâ: Higher Ed Denounces Proposed Federal Funding Strings
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Higher Ed Denounces GSAâs Proposed Federal Funding Strings
Major groups representing universities, faculty and others oppose draft General Services Administration rules targeting DEI and more. Trumpâs recent executive order doubles down.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/2026/04/01/higher-ed-denounces-gsas-proposed-federal-funding-strings
11 days ago
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Didnât see this coming, but Iâm back at the Post to cover the final stretch of the Capsâ season. Itâs been a really weird couple of months, but Iâm grateful to have the work and be back doing what I love for the time being
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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill that would allow colleges to lay off tenured faculty with 30 days of notice if program enrollments are determined to be low, going well beyond the norm of discontinuing the program in order to do layoffs.
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Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Allowing Easier Faculty Layoffs
The legislation would explicitly permit terminations for low enrollment or âmisalignment of revenue and costs.â The GOP supermajority can override any veto from the Democratic governor.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/tenure/2026/03/30/kentucky-senate-passes-bill-allowing-easier-faculty-layoffs
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Kentucky Lawmakers Want to Make It Easier to Lay Off Faculty
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Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Allowing Easier Faculty Layoffs
The legislation would explicitly permit terminations for low enrollment or âmisalignment of revenue and costs.â The GOP supermajority can override any veto from the Democratic governor.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/tenure/2026/03/30/kentucky-senate-passes-bill-allowing-easier-faculty-layoffs
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Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.
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GOP Decries Chinese âEspionageâ; Dems Focus on Loan Debt, ED Layoffs
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GOP Decries Chinese Higher Ed âEspionageâ; Dems Focus On Other Issues
The House Ed and Workforce Committee chair referred to Democratsâ questions as an âalternate hearingâ from the one he called on foreign threats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2026/03/27/gop-decries-chinese-higher-ed-espionage-dems-focus-other
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The New York Times
16 days ago
Breaking News: The Senate voted to fund the Homeland Security Department, except for ICE and the Border Patrol, a key step toward ending a partial shutdown.
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Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown
The bill excludes funding for federal immigration enforcement and deportation operations. The House could consider the package on Friday morning.
https://nyti.ms/4rR47hH
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The shift from lead-ins of
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newsletters to the actual news of the day is always jarring. Today: "Good morning. Itâs Thursday, March 26, and the FX drama 'Love Story' is finally ending" ... IRAN WAR SOCIAL MEDIA ADDICTION ICE IN AIRPORTS
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Halfway Through the Fiscal Year, NIH Has Only Obligated 15% of Research Funding
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AAMC: NIH Has Only Obligated 15% of External Research Funding
The science community fears the funding agencyâs slow contract and grant making could result in another rush of multiyear obligations at the end of the fiscal year. The NIH director has said, âDonât p...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/03/25/aamc-nih-has-only-obligated-15-external-research
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Faculty, Grad Workers Left Out of Virginiaâs Collective Bargaining Expansion
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Faculty, Grad Workers Left Out of Va.âs Unionization Bill
Lawmakers sent the new Democratic governor a bill to end the stateâs longtime ban on public workers unionizing. But faculty and grad students are excluded.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2026/03/24/faculty-grad-workers-left-out-vas-unionization
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24 days ago
There's a lot of questions about how this partnership will work, but Ryan has the details on what we know so far.
add a skeleton here at some point
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ED Transfers Defaulted Student Loan Collection Responsibilities to Treasury
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ED Transfers Defaulted Loan Collection Duties to Treasury
The Education Department says its latest move to distribute its duties to other federal agencies will include Treasury taking on much more student financial aid oversight in the future.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2026/03/19/ed-transfers-defaulted-loan-collection-duties
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Good news for NIH-funded researchers and universities? âI understand that OMB finally approved NIHâs apportionments last nightâ Rep. Rosa DeLauro said just now at a hearing with NIH director.
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Iowa House Passes Bills Affecting Public University Curricula, President Searches
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Iowa House OKs Bills Affecting Public University Curricula
The Republican-controlled Iowa House passed three bills last week that would order curricular and other changes at the stateâs three public universities: the University of Iowa, Iowa State University ...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/16/iowa-house-oks-bills-affecting-public-university-curricula
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Lawmakers Move to Bail Out Southern Oregon While Portland State Plans to Cut
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Southern Oregon Gets Help, Portland State Plans to Cut
Oregonâs higher ed coordinating agency has already recommended âintegration,â up to mergers. Portland faculty are calling for more state funding for their own institution.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/cost-cutting/2026/03/16/southern-oregon-gets-help-portland-state-plans-cut
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More service member deaths
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6 dead after KC-135 US refueling aircraft goes down in western Iraq
"This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire," CENTCOM said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/4-dead-us-refueling-aircraft-100355264.html
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Federal Grant Makers May Lose Job Protections: 5 Things to Know
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Federal Grant Makers May Lose Job Protections: 5 Things to Know
Trump has created a new employee category that he previously dubbed Schedule F. It allows for easier firings of those who are âsubverting presidential directives.â
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/03/12/federal-grant-makers-may-lose-job-protections-5
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Indiana Governor Signs Bill Putting Low-Earning Degrees on Chopping Block
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Indiana Governor Signs Bill to End Low-Earning Degrees
Indianaâs governor has signed into law a bill that aims to eliminate all academic programs at the stateâs public universities and at Ivy Tech Community College that fail a new federal earnings test.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/10/indiana-governor-signs-bill-end-low-earning-degrees
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So I watched Trump's college sports roundtable, so you don't have to. As college leaders warn that college athletics is running out of time for reform, they want the federal government to do something to help.
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At White House, College Leaders Plead for Federal Action
President Trump presided over a White House discussion on the future of college sports, the latest sign of growing momentum toward a federal solution to the troubles plaguing college athletics.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/2026/03/09/white-house-college-leaders-plead-federal-action
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Some of the institutions where fellowships were canceledâas well as those listed as potential replacementsânever received notification from the Pentagon, these universities told Inside Higher Ed. Itâs unclear if any did.
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Hegseth is Waging War on Colleges. His Targets Are Unclear.
The defense secretaryâs memos and X videos have left a muddied picture of which programs are being canceled at which institutions and for what reasons.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/graduate/2026/03/06/hegseth-waging-war-colleges-his-targets-are-unclear
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Medical Residency Application Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
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Residency App Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
Application rates to medical residency programs fell on average in states that passed new abortion restrictions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade compared to states that didnât, a new scientific pa...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/04/residency-app-rates-fell-states-restricted-abortion
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Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School
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Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/world/middleeast/iran-school-bombing-children.html?smid=tw-share
about 1 month ago
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From Johanna Alonso: Under Pressure, Clearinghouse Severs Relationship With Student Voting Study
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Clearinghouse Severs Relationship With Student Voting Study
Since 2013, researchers from Tufts University have studied college studentsâ voting habits using data provided by the National Student Clearinghouse. Now, the clearinghouse is pulling out of the partn...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/2026/03/03/clearinghouse-severs-relationship-student-voting-study
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U.S. Campuses in Middle East Shutter; Students, Employees Unable to Fly Back
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Middle East U.S. Campuses Shutter; Students Unable to Return
Iranâs retaliation across the Middle East against ongoing U.S. and Israeli bombings has disrupted higher ed in previously calm Gulf states.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2026/03/02/middle-east-us-campuses-shutter-students-unable-return
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US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says
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US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says
The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle âEast, even as officials declined to offer a timeline and cautioned they expected more U.S. casualties.
https://reut.rs/4ct4fAd
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UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy
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UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy
Two weeks after introducing a policy that allowed administrators to secretly record faculty members during class, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor Lee Roberts told faculty he wou...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/02/unc-chancellor-scraps-secret-recording-policy
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ED Releases Recommendations to Reimagine IES
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ED Releases Recommendations to Reimagine IES
The Education Department has released recommendations on âreimaginingâ the Institute of Education Sciences, the central federal education data collection and research funding agency, which the Trump a...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/03/02/ed-releases-recommendations-reimagine-ies
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I finally got time this weekend to read Josh Moody's great story on the war against student free speech (including student journalism). You should read it, too:
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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The War on Student Speech
Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/free-speech/2026/02/24/war-student-speech?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=2e1704282b-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-2e1704282b-237731873&mc_cid=2e1704282b&mc_eid=f9d91f3dac
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/technology/openai-agreement-pentagon-ai.html?smid=tw-share
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Iran Says Dozens Killed in Strike on School
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/iran-says-dozens-killed-in-strike-on-school.html?smid=url-share
about 1 month ago
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The moment many of us in
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have been waiting for... Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.
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UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Is, and Isnât
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UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Isâand Isnât
The university system dropped proposed language saying teaching âclearly unrelated to the course descriptionâ wouldnât be protected. The AAUP remained opposed.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2026/02/26/unc-board-oks-definition-what-academic-freedom-and
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about 2 months ago
The Dear Colleague letter, a key tool in Trumpâs attack on DEI, had been blocked for months. Then, ED dropped its appeal, killing the policy for good. Some DEI advocates declared it a âmajor win,â but other legal experts say the war is far from over.
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EDâs DEI Guidance Is Dead, but Trumpâs Crackdown Isnât
Diversity advocates say the courts have been clearâTrump has no justification to ban DEI. But other legal experts say the administration has plenty of other tools it can use to accomplish the same goa...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2026/02/26/eds-dei-guidance-dead-trumps-crackdown-isnt?_gl=1*7o4eck*_up*MQ..*_ga*MTI4MjA1MDA2NS4xNzcyMTE2NzY0*_ga_F07KT3P0SW*czE3NzIxMTY3NjMkbzEkZzAkdDE3NzIxMTY3NjMkajYwJGwwJGgw
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about 2 months ago
Journalism job alert:
@wired.com
is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom!
condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...
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Senior Correspondent, Politics
WIRED is where a better future is imagined. For three decades, we have been the indispensable guide to a world in constant transformation. We cover humanityâs biggest challenges, from climate change t...
https://condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeCareers/job/Senior-Correspondent--Politics_R-23133-2
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NSF Plans to Boost Staffing, Halve Grant Solicitations
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NSF Plans to Boost Staffing, Halve Grant Solicitations
Following last yearâs cuts, the chief management officer of the federal research funding agency says its number of employees is âtoo low.â
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/02/26/nsf-plans-boost-staffing-halve-grant
about 2 months ago
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Some of the Iowa higher ed legislation has now passed the House, per Capital Dispatch: Iowa House passes tuition freeze, continuing education, anti-DEI bills
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Iowa House passes tuition freeze, continuing education, anti-DEI bills ⢠Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowa House lawmakers debated freezing tuition, restricting the Iowa Tuition Grant program and more Tuesday afternoon.
https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/02/24/iowa-house-passes-tuition-freeze-continuing-education-anti-dei-bills/
about 2 months ago
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DOJ Sues UC System, Alleging âHostile Work Environmentâ for Jews at UCLA
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DOJ Sues UC, Alleging 'Hostile Work Environment' for Jews
The Justice Department sued the University of California system Tuesday, alleging it has tolerated antisemitism to such an extent that it's created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli em...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/24/doj-sues-uc-alleging-hostile-work-environment-jews
about 2 months ago
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The Education Dept. said State will âuse its national security and foreign national academic admissions expertise to review and assess the industryâs compliance with the law, share data with the public and federal stakeholders, and identify potential threats.â
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ED Partners With State Dept. to Track College Foreign Funds
The partnership is part of a broader effort to dismantle the federal education agency.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2026/02/24/ed-partners-state-dept-track-college-foreign-funds
about 2 months ago
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ED Partnering With State Dept. to Track Universitiesâ Foreign Funding
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ED Partners With State Dept. to Track College Foreign Funds
The partnership is part of a broader effort to dismantle the federal education agency.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2026/02/24/ed-partners-state-dept-track-college-foreign-funds
about 2 months ago
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U.S. Plans to Stop Funding Low-Earning Degrees. Indiana May Just End Them.
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Indiana Bill Would Use Federal Earnings Test to End Programs
Congressâs new earnings test will stop students from receiving federal aid for some programs. A Hoosier State bill goes further, putting those degrees on the chopping block.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/state-policy/2026/02/23/indiana-bill-would-use-federal-earnings-test-end-programs
about 2 months ago
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Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been
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After Researching Tenureâs History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It
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After Research, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End Tenure
Tennesseeâs House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he âstumbled into a little bit of the historyâ and âgot a little deeper than I t...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/19/after-research-tennessee-lawmaker-drops-bill-end-tenure
about 2 months ago
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NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; OâNeill to Be Nominated NSF Director
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NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; OâNeill to Head NSF
The National Institutes of Health director will become acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and President Trump will nominate the CDCâs former acting director to lead the...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2026/02/18/nih-director-will-be-acting-cdc-chief-oneill-head-nsf
about 2 months ago
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Inside Higher Ed
about 2 months ago
Richard Bland College Board Removed Virginia lawmakers rejected seven lingering board picks from former governor Glenn Youngkin, effectively removing the entire Richard Bland College Board of Visitors. https://bit.ly/468i4A4
#EDUSky
#HigherEd
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ProPublica
about 2 months ago
NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. Itâs part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By
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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making âfalse claimsâ of treating autism. Itâs part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...
https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-fda-removes-autism-treatments-warning?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=2-18
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Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With âDEI-CRTâ in Gen Ed
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Kansas May Cut Millions From Colleges With âDEIâ in Gen Ed
The budget bill would also freeze tuition revenue, allow institutions to fire tenured faculty faster and develop plans to eliminate a tenth of positions and expenses from universitiesâ leadership offi...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/diversity/2026/02/18/kansas-may-cut-millions-colleges-dei-gen-ed
about 2 months ago
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