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. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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.

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: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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.

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...

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...

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. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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...

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.

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."

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 ⬇️

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...

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

Why did the Fulbright foreign scholars' board members resign en masse? @liamknox.bsky.social has the inside story: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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...

Apropos of nothing, but here's my story from October on accreditation. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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... #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3FGjAPG

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...

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...

ICYMI: @liamknox.bsky.social on the Trump admin & international students: www.wnyc.org/story/the-la...

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

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 @liamknox.bsky.social. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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/...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Trump administration wants to eliminate TRIO. @liamknox.bsky.social and I wrote about how the move would affect low-income students and institutions.

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...

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...

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...

"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...

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: www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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

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 explains: www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

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...

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/...

This @insidehighered.com website is tracking visa revocations of students across the US, >600 at >100 colleges as of today, April 10. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

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/...

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/...