Liam Knox
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My first piece for Markets Magazine looks at new federal loan limits for grad students, how corporate lenders are gearing up to fill the gap--and the cos impact for low-income students. One borrower would "rather run into traffic" than turn to the private market.
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Grad Students Face Costly Private Loans After Federal Cuts
Many borrowers will pay more to plug a $10 billion gap.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-07/student-debt-borrowers-face-costly-private-loans-for-grad-school-after-cuts?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc3NTU3MTUyOSwiZXhwIjoxNzc2MTc2MzI5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJURDRIQzRLR0lGVzcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNkJERjhENTMzNkY0QzM4QkU2RTNCQjg2ODM1QzFBNiJ9.BmeKpstDsOBJDvfK5OgZy0gb7rNYem2bqZvPKa0SnQY
about 2 months ago
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Bloomberg News
3 months ago
President Trump’s administration appears to be retooling its aggressive campaign to reshape elite universities, bringing lawsuits into a fight that it has primarily waged with funding freezes and executive action.
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Trump Takes College Crusade to the Courtroom in Strategic Shift
President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be retooling its aggressive campaign to reshape elite universities, bringing lawsuits into a fight that it has primarily waged with funding freezes and executive action.
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Donald Trump is dismantling the Education Department piece by piece. Since taking office they've laid off 40% of its staff and moved billions in grant programs to other agencies. We dug into the numbers and the impact of the White House's plan:
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How to Shred the Department of Education
Republicans have been trying to dissolve the Department of Education since it was created. Under Trump, this is how they are dismantling the federal agency, step by step
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-how-to-dismantle-education-department/?srnd=homepage-americas
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NEW: Trump is pausing plans to garnish the wages of millions of student loan borrowers in default, less than a month after announcing the effort. The about-face comes amid a broader affordability push from the White House ahead of this year's crucial midterms.
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Trump Delays Plan to Seize Wages of Student Borrowers Amid Affordability Push
The Trump administration has paused its efforts to seize student debt from borrowers’ paychecks, the Education Department said Friday, as the White House makes a concerted push around an affordability...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-16/trump-delays-plan-to-seize-wages-of-student-borrowers-amid-affordability-push?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2ODU5NTc5NywiZXhwIjoxNzY5MjAwNTk3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOFlYRTZLR0NUSkEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNkJERjhENTMzNkY0QzM4QkU2RTNCQjg2ODM1QzFBNiJ9.LsjpMAqz1y_slEJJA65G524AxpU841jpvmOtiCQO8-M
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The Trump admin will start garnishing wages for student loan borrowers in default next year, sending the first 1,000 notices the week of January 7. More than 5 million borrowers are in default on their student loans, and that number could balloon next year.
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US to Begin Garnishing Wages for Student Debt Collection in 2026
The Trump administration will begin to seize student debt repayments from the wages of borrowers in default early next year, the US Education Department said Tuesday.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23/us-to-begin-garnishing-wages-for-student-debt-collection-in-2026?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NjUwNzg0NywiZXhwIjoxNzY3MTEyNjQ3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUN1FCR1JLSzNOWUEwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNkJERjhENTMzNkY0QzM4QkU2RTNCQjg2ODM1QzFBNiJ9.NNNNtl8TQq55y-GRUUZWTjM5WAzRq34aJO_O6eG_MHM
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Colleges were once a bulwark of skepticism about AI's role in education. Now they're a growing customer base for OpenAI, according to documents we obtained, and the company is making a push for more deals. How did higher ed learn to stop worrying and love ChatGPT?
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OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-18/schools-ink-chatgpt-copilot-deals-with-students-embracing-ai
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Three days after a tragic shooting killed two students at Brown University, the attacker remains at large. Security footage is scarce, a vexing challenge for a campus with more than 800 cameras. As Brown closes down early, anxiety and frustration is mounting:
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Frustration Mounts as Brown University Shooter Remains at Large
Shock over a shooting rampage at Brown University over the weekend is giving way to frustration over the lack of video footage and suspects.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-15/frustration-mounts-as-brown-university-shooter-remains-at-large
6 months ago
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Scoop: The Education Department ordered more than 260 Office for Civil Rights staff laid off in March to return to work this month as a court case over the firings drags on, according to emails I obtained. A spokesperson told me the order is temporary, and ED will still pursue the layoffs.
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Excited to share my first weekend essay for
@bloomberg.com
! I wrote about Trump's college funding compact, the schools he saw as potential allies in his campus reform crusade, and why its getting harder and harder for universities to stay out of politics:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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In Trump’s War With Colleges, No School Gets to Be Switzerland
The administration’s “compact” for preferential funding targets fence-sitters, putting pressure on schools that thought they could stay above the fray.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-14/trump-college-compact-forces-us-universities-to-pick-a-side-for-funding?srnd=undefined
7 months ago
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Jason Leopold
7 months ago
NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! ‘This is Not a Drill.’ How the Peace Corps Prepared for a DOGE Visit The agency spent two months running through training exercises leading up to DOGE’s arrival in April, according to emails I obtained via
#FOIA
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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The Trump admin is leveraging the accreditation system to reshape campuses. I sat down for an exclusive interview with the man leading that charge, Nicholas Kent, who laid out his plans for a higher ed "revolution." "We're not afraid to fire accreditors," he said.
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Trump’s College Czar Has a ‘Secret Weapon’ to Transform Campuses
Under Secretary of Education Nicholas Kent wants to overhaul the accreditation system that ties schools to government funds. Agencies are already falling in line.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-30/trump-higher-education-crackdown-targets-accreditation?srnd=homepage-americas
7 months ago
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Dartmouth rejected the White House’s funding compact this morning, a day after meeting with administration officials to discuss the deal. They’re the sixth college to decline in the past week.
president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
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Dartmouth's Feedback on the Compact | Office of the President
https://president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/dartmouths-feedback-compact
8 months ago
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The University of Southern California declined the Trump administrations preferential college funding compact, hours after Penn did the same. USC is the fourth of nine formally invited schools to reject the White House’s deal.
8 months ago
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UPenn declined to sign the Trump administration's preferential funding compact, becoming the third of nine formally invited schools to do so. But Penn president Larry Jameson said the university provided substantive feedback, unlike MIT and Brown, which rejected the deal's "fundamental premise."
8 months ago
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Bloomberg News
10 months ago
One billionaire has waged a five-year campaign to force Credit Suisse and later UBS to examine the mishandling of Holocaust victims’ money — and that quest is nearing completion. Read The Big Take ⬇️
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A Billionaire’s Quest to Find Credit Suisse Nazi Accounts Puts UBS in the Spotlight
Ronald Lauder has led a push to reopen investigations after he helped reach a $1.25 billion settlement in the 1990s. He thinks that deal left billions on the table.
https://bloom.bg/4lLHOIj
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Gregory Korte
10 months ago
NEW: Federal officials pressuring Harvard University over allegations of mishandling antisemitism on campus considered an unprecedented tactic to force compliance: placing a lien on school property. -- with
@janetlorin.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Harvard Faced Threat of Trump Team Placing Lien on Its Property
Federal officials pressuring Harvard University over allegations of mishandling antisemitism on campus considered an unprecedented tactic to force compliance: placing a lien on school property.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-24/harvard-faced-threat-of-trump-team-placing-lien-on-its-property?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MzM4NTkxMywiZXhwIjoxNzUzOTkwNzEzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWlQ2QkJHUEw0M0MwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0RERFNDQwOTI4RDE0QzJDOEUyQTY0RUYzRkUxRTYwRiJ9.RyDEFP6qitFbOklSoC0fY2nxsZ4VTmmT44YpvMQj_o0
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Some personal news: tomorrow will be my last day at Inside Higher Ed. I’m thrilled to be joining
@bloomberg.com
as education reporter, covering the Trump administration's efforts to reshape the education landscape.
11 months ago
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Inside Higher Ed
11 months ago
DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
#HigherEd
#EDUSky
#AcademicSky
bit.ly/4k8PL8s
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DeSantis Announces Launch of New Accreditor
Florida governor announced the state is launching its own accrediting body. Other states involved in the effort are Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.
https://bit.ly/4k8PL8s
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Colleen Flaherty
12 months ago
Only about 12 percent of nondegree credentials offered graduates significant wage gains of 10 percent or more that they wouldn’t have gotten otherwise compared to similar workers.
www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...
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Nondegree Credentials Yield Mixed Outcomes
The American Enterprise Institute and Burning Glass Institute analyzed upward of 23,000 nondegree programs to see how well they meet learners’ goals.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-innovation/alternative-credentials/2025/06/16/nondegree-credentials-yield-mixed-outcomes
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Susan Greenberg
12 months ago
Workforce Pell, which both houses of Congress support, would allow students enrolled in short-term credential programs to receive the federal aid grants. That could spur unaccredited providers to seek a piece of the burgeoning credentials market.
@liamknox.bsky.social
reports:
tinyurl.com/un455zu9
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Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/06/16/workforce-pell-would-extend-grants-unaccredited
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Inside Higher Ed
12 months ago
Congress Opens the Credential Floodgates Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
#HigherEd
#EDUSky
#AcademicSky
bit.ly/4jOZctB
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Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://bit.ly/4jOZctB
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Sara Custer
12 months ago
Could congress' proposed workforce Pell provision unlock the floodgates to thousands of unaccredited non-degree awarding providers?
@liamknox.bsky.social
reports
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/06/16/workforce-pell-would-extend-grants-unaccredited
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Susan Greenberg
12 months ago
Why did the Fulbright foreign scholars' board members resign en masse?
@liamknox.bsky.social
has the inside story:
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Fulbright Board Resigns En Masse Over Political Interference
Nearly the entire scholarship board quit Wednesday in protest of the Trump administration’s intervention in the selection process, which they say was politically motivated and illegal.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/06/11/fulbright-board-resigns-en-masse-over-political
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Katherine Knott
12 months ago
So much is happening and the Senate is looking to pass its version of the One Big Beautiful Bill in two weeks. Here's
@jessicablake.bsky.social
on what to expect as we await the draft of the Senate bill.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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What to Expect as the Senate Tackles Reconciliation
The Senate faces a July 4 deadline to pass its own version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, leaving little time for compromise or significant changes.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/06/05/what-expect-senate-tackles-reconciliation
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Katherine Knott
12 months ago
Apropos of nothing, but here's my story from October on accreditation.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Can Republicans take away a college’s accreditation?
But, the federal government has no say in whether an individual college is accredited, experts say. That decision is up to the accreditors.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2024/10/14/can-republicans-take-away-colleges-accreditation
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Inside Higher Ed
12 months ago
After Delays and Public Blowback, Chapel Hill Board Votes Outside Meeting to Award Tenure After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed...
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#AcademicSky
bit.ly/3FGjAPG
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After Delay, Chapel Hill Board Votes to Award Tenure
After faculty raised alarm over the board’s delay on the decisions, trustees finally debated and voted by email. A couple of them said they generally opposed tenure.
https://bit.ly/3FGjAPG
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I’ll be on
@the1a.org
at 10 ET tomorrow to talk all things international students — how they’re navigating the current moment and what’s changed about the Trump admins approach to revoking visas and curtailing international enrollment. Tune in here:
www.npr.org/podcasts/510...
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1A
Listening to the news can feel like a journey. But 1A guides you beyond the headlines – and cuts through the noise. Let's get to the heart of the story, together – on 1A.Support NPR and get your news ...
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510316/1a
12 months ago
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Katherine Knott
about 1 year ago
Community colleges say 400k students could lose their Pell Grant under House Republican’s proposal changes to the program. Here’s why.
www.insidehighered.com/news/institu...
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Community Colleges Fear Proposed Changes to Pell
The House’s budget would strip Pell Grants from many part-time students. That’s bad news for community colleges.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/institutions/community-colleges/2025/06/02/community-colleges-fear-proposed-changes-pell
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The Brian Lehrer Show
about 1 year ago
ICYMI:
@liamknox.bsky.social
on the Trump admin & international students:
www.wnyc.org/story/the-la...
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The Latest on International Students in the US | The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC
Reporter Liam Knox reports on the latest on that plus the dispute between the administration and Harvard over enrolling foreign students.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/the-latest-on-international-students-in-the-us
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I’ll be on the Brian Lehrer Show at 9 ET this morning to talk about my reporting on the Fulbright and the Trump administration’s revival of its campaign against international students. Tune in:
www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
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The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News
Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
about 1 year ago
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Susan Greenberg
about 1 year ago
The Trump administration has taken its fight against DEI to the Fulbright program, intervening in the selection process to disqualify applicants whose projects focus on race, gender or climate change. Great reporting by
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www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals
The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/us-colleges-world/2025/05/29/fulbright-applicants-rejected-over-dei-research-proposals
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NEW: ICE sent emails to dozens of international graduates on OPT threatening deportation unless they provide proof of employment in 15 days. The scope of the crackdown is unclear, but one advisor told me 28 students from one college got the same letter.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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ICE Warns International Students of More SEVIS Terminations
Immigration officials sent letters to recent international graduates on short-term work visas giving them 15 days to report employment or face removal from the country.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/05/16/ice-warns-international-students-more-sevis
about 1 year ago
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Mark Lieberman
about 1 year ago
New: The Department of Education appears to be denying the majority of requests from states to unfreeze tens of millions of pandemic relief dollars for K-12 school projects and programs that were already underway.
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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Billions for Schools Are in Limbo as Trump Admin. Denies State Funding Requests
Chaos and confusion continue to reign as states scramble to spend the last of their COVID relief funds under new deadlines.
https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/billions-for-schools-are-in-limbo-as-trump-admin-denies-state-funding-requests/2025/05
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Susan Greenberg
about 1 year ago
Given the current anti-DEI climate, universities in many red states have canceled affinity graduation celebrations for underrepresented groups on campus. But students are carrying on the tradition themselves, as Johanna Alonso reports:
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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Amid DEI Cancellations, Students Hold Affinity Graduations
Colleges have scrapped affinity graduation celebrations as Trump targets DEI and state bans take effect, but new traditions may be starting.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/diversity/2025/05/14/amid-dei-cancellations-students-hold-affinity-graduations
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Susan Greenberg
about 1 year ago
Colleges may be reluctant to push back publicly on the Trump administration, but they are quietly spending a boatload on lobbying efforts in Washington.
@byjoshmoody.bsky.social
examined the data to find out just how much:
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Colleges Spend Heavily on Lobbying
Amid conflict with the Trump administration, many institutions have increased federal lobbying efforts, in some cases doubling or tripling what they spent in the first quarter of 2024.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/05/13/colleges-spend-heavily-lobbying
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Sara Custer
about 1 year ago
Think calculating the cost of college is already too complicated? Changes proposed in the GOP's reconciliation bill could make it even more difficult, critics say. Supporters of the changes say it will help drive down costs.
@liamknox.bsky.social
reports
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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How Congress Could Make Paying for College More Complicated
House Republicans proposed sweeping changes to financial aid, federal loans and program cost estimates that could make paying for college more challenging and expensive.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/student-aid-policy/2025/05/12/how-congress-could-make-paying-college-more?utm_source=Inside+Higher+Ed&utm_campaign=3778245e90-DNU_2021_COPY_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1fcbc04421-3778245e90-197389733&mc_cid=3778245e90&mc_eid=e0bc260de6
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Sara Weissman
about 1 year ago
The Trump administration wants to eliminate TRIO.
@liamknox.bsky.social
and I wrote about how the move would affect low-income students and institutions.
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How Trump’s Proposed TRIO Cuts Could Hamper College Access
The Trump administration wants to eliminate the federally funded student support program. That could be devastating for low-income students and the institutions that serve them.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/retention/2025/05/06/how-trumps-proposed-trio-cuts-could-hamper-college-access
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Jeremy Bauer-Wolf
about 1 year ago
A few new accreditors want federal recognition. Their leaders are tied to predatory for-profit colleges, some of which defrauded students. My latest:
www.newamerica.org/education-po...
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Meet the Would-Be Accreditors Tied to Predatory For-Profit Colleges
The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for potentially exploitative accreditors to enter the federal financial aid system.
https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/meet-the-would-be-accreditors-tied-to-predatory-for-profit-colleges/
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Jaweed Kaleem
about 1 year ago
NEW: The Trump administration has detained a UCLA international student at the U.S.-Mexico border. She is currently in CBP custody. The detention comes as the administration has cancelled more than 1,000 student visas across the U.S.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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UCLA international student detained at U.S.-Mexico border amid Trump visa cancellations
UCLA confirmed that an international student was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border. A campus rally was quickly organized in her support.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-17/ucla-international-student-detained-us-mexico-border
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Hamed Aleaziz
about 1 year ago
The Trump administration has threatened to block Harvard University from enrolling international students unless the school hands over detailed information about the student body, in yet another escalation of the government’s fight against higher education.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
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Trump Threatens to Block International Students Unless Harvard Shares Student Data
The demand from the Department of Homeland Security is an escalation in President Trump’s fight against Harvard, the country’s oldest and richest university.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/politics/trump-harvard-international-students.html
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Megan Menchaca
about 1 year ago
"I will no longer be able to continue teaching." Hyeongseon Jeon, an assistant professor at the University of Houston, said he had his foreign visa unexpectedly terminated and now must return to Korea immediately.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
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University of Houston confirms math assistant professor had visa revoked
A University of Houston assistant professor is among the foreign scholars whose visas were revoked in recent weeks, officials at the institution confirmed.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/uh-visa-revoked-math-professor-20277600.php
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Susan Greenberg
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The trump administration has fully or partially implemented nearly one-third of the 50 or so higher ed policy recommendations outlined in Project 2025. Can studying it prepare us for what's coming next? A terrific analysis by
@jessicablake.bsky.social
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www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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How Trump’s Early Actions Compare to Project 2025
Many of the Trump administration’s early actions have closely mirrored the recommendations of conservative think tanks.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/04/15/how-trumps-early-actions-compare-project-2025
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Wrote about the danger of this kind of technical failure in the student aid system a month ago:
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
It appears the fears that first sprung up when the FAFSA went down briefly in March are growing
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about 1 year ago
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Susan Greenberg
about 1 year ago
Among the demands Trump has made of universities seeking to have their slashed research funds restored is "comprehensive admissions reform." What does this even mean, and how can it be achieved?
@liamknox.bsky.social
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www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...
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Admissions Offices Brace for Federal Scrutiny
The administration wants “comprehensive admissions reform” at colleges. It’s unclear what that means or how it would be enforced, but pressure to avoid scrutiny could affect admissions practices.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/traditional-age/2025/04/14/admissions-offices-brace-federal-scrutiny
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Erin Cunningham
about 1 year ago
Days before ICE detained Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, the State Dept. determined that the Trump administration had not produced evidence showing she engaged in antisemitic activities or made public statements supporting a terrorist organization.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found
An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/13/tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-rubio-trump/
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Update: at least 844 visas have been revoked across more than 160 colleges. Many students are unsure why they were targeted—and even less sure what to do now. Follow our coverage
@insidehighered.com
, and stay up to date with
@amowreader.com
’s interactive map:
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/07/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked
about 1 year ago
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Laura Lopez
about 1 year ago
This
@insidehighered.com
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www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Suparna Chaudhry
about 1 year ago
We're now up to 600+ international students who've had their visas terminated. There's probably more - most haven't received notifications from the State Department & schools only find out as they run checks on students' status to see if they're still active.
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/07/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked
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As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges. That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or
@amowreader.com
and follow
@insidehighered.com
interactive visa map here:
www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
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Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked
The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/global/international-students-us/2025/04/07/where-students-have-had-their-visas-revoked
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