Join us in welcoming our State Policy Interns! 🎉 This summer, Mya will support our Holistic Advising for Student Success project, while Jaden will contribute to the development of a state #highered governance database and peer identification tool. More: https://ow.ly/XS4v50Z1PX9

We’re in Chicago this week for our inaugural in-person Economic and Workforce Development Officers Meeting. As higher education and the workforce continue to align, we’re looking forward to diving into conversations with our members around state needs, trends, labor market needs, etc.

Kicking us off this morning is Jeff Strohl, Research Professor and Director at Georgetown CEW, with a dynamic presentation on the changing nature and relationship of higher education and the economy.

#negreg The group has wrapped up the second day, and a smaller caucus of the accreditors and institutions is meeting to discuss how they will approach the dept's proposals for monitoring Civil Rights, free speech and acad. freedom - the caucus is supposed to report publicly in the morning

#negreg - first real flash of anger from Mark Becker, board chair of CPHE, who tells the dept that the narrative about runaway tuition, at public colleges at least is 'patently false.' Cost drivers are fed compliance which will increase with the proposed regs, Becker says

NEW POST: Check out our latest blog post, a Q&A with Dr. Zachary Barricklow from the North Carolina Community College System Office, on how data and strategic partnerships inform efforts to strengthen outcomes for rural institutions. https://ow.ly/Vq5F50YIr11

Associate VP @cgheesling.bsky.social is speaking today with @ithakasr.bsky.social's Holistic Credit Mobility project about the changing national landscape regarding workforce Pell, regional accreditation, and three-year bachelor’s degree programs and their impacts on credit mobility efforts.

🗓️ We’ve recently published a series of six research papers and a synthesis paper that provides a brief overview of each paper, identifies key themes across findings, and concludes with policy implications and recommendations. Check them out here: ow.ly/wxAI50WyjbY

The Department of Justice issued guidance for all organizations receiving federal funding regarding DEI. Notably, it seems to put top ten percent admission plans on shaky ground because of references to geographic targeting.

This morning, Associate VP @carrienklein.bsky.social spoke on a panel at the State Financial Aid Research Network Annual Conference about our role in the data space; the scope of state #highereddata; levers and challenges of state data use; and opportunities for state data in uncertain times.

Join us in welcoming Dr. Corey Gheesling! 👏 As our new Associate Vice President, he will focus on building SHEEO's workforce development portfolio to assist state higher ed agencies in their efforts to meet economic & workforce demands. ow.ly/BOq850WmvkH @cgheesling.bsky.social

Don’t just look at the higher ed provisions in the bill. The impact of the Medicaid and SNAP cuts on state budgets will lead to cuts in state higher ed funding.

The biggest impact of this legislation on higher ed is going to come from the budget hits states are going to take. There's a lot in a state budget that can't be cut. Higher ed can be. That's likely to make higher education more expensive for millions of people. www.chronicle.com/article/what...

"The Office of State Planning and Budgeting estimated that the GOP megabill will decrease state revenues by as much as $500 million and increase costs to the state by as much as $650 million." www.cohousedems.com/news/gop-meg...

We're teaming up with @ithakasr.bsky.social on a new project to assess how state higher education agencies use IPEDS to support their systems, inform policy and planning, and advance credential attainment and other postsecondary education goals. Learn more: sr.ithaka.org/blog/uses-of...

New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

House/Senate are set to eliminate Grad PLUS, and put in place loan limits that would dramatically restrict graduate borrowing. Media coverage emphasizes impact this may have on very expensive programs like Medicine and Dentistry, but @peerresearch.bsky.social finds impact will be much(!) broader 1/

This is a step forward. www.dailycardinal.com/article/2025...

You all know what is coming for #highered www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

No, donors wont, they cant. The NIH alone made about $34 billion in grants a year. Gates, the biggest foundation in the world, has $77 billion in assets. Philanthropy is important, but it won’t save us. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/u...

If the Senate version of the endowment tax passes, not only will universities pay much less than the House proposed, but many fewer colleges will pay the endowment tax than pay it *currently*.

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Byrd Bath for higher ed provisions www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Back of the envelope calculation from the other day using CBPP data---the House cuts to SNAP in Pennsylvania would be 47% of the state's higher ed budget. Doesn't count additional administrative costs, Medicaid, etc. Just one SNAP provision. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

I don't like the New York Times referring to regional public universities with their own presidents as "outposts." That comes across as very dismissive of the workhorses of higher education.

The bill in Congress in going to make this much, much worse. As as recent op-ed in Inside Higher Ed noted-"You ain't seen nothing yet." Tuition Increases and Layoffs Are Coming to a Broad Set of Universities www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

I called this correctly in 2023. “Every budget cycle for the past 10 years, the Wisconsin Legislature conjures up a new reason not to fund the UW system,” he said. “Now it’s DEI, but in 2025 it will be something else.” ---Inside Higher Ed 12/8/23

A strong argument can be made that the most important public #highered provisions in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" aren't in the education section. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

Interesting that selective service is highlighting state-level grant aid. x.com/SSS_gov/stat...

The man who is wrote the article below ("The very integrity of the academic enterprise is rightly being questioned") is the same man who was found in the cache of files from the tobacco industry arguing about the benefits of allowing smoking indoors. www.independent.org/article/2025...

Middle America is gonna be stoked when tuition increases at every 4-year public with more than a handful of Chinese students.

Just a reminder that there will be more headlines about the student loan repayment crisis in the months ahead. Public higher ed leaders predicted this crisis decades ago, but policymakers chose a different path.

🗓️ Have you registered for our 2025 Higher Education Policy Conference yet? Join us in Minneapolis this August to hear from states and organizations making an impact on policies and practices that are shaping higher education across the country. Register today! bit.ly/policyconfer...

I shared some thoughts with Inside Higher Ed about why we're likely at the high point for state higher ed funding for years to come. And tuition revenue isn't going to save the day, either.

State public financial aid per FTE increased 4.8% from 2023 to 2024 and reached an all-time high of $1,155 per FTE enrolled student. These funds made up 9.9% of all education appropriations. Financial aid per FTE increased in 31 states in the last year.

After 12 straight years of declines, public FTE enrollment increased, reaching 10.4 million in 2024, up 2.9% since 2023, but still down 10.8% from an enrollment peak in 2011. #SHEF

#SHEF shows public higher education appropriations increased just 0.8% beyond inflation, still, funding surpassed pre-COVID-19 pandemic funding levels in 2019 by 17.9%.

RELEASE: The FY24 State Higher Education Finance Report is now available! The latest SHEF data shows a minimal funding increase to public colleges. State and local government funding for higher education totaled $139.1 billion in fiscal year 2024. A 🧵:

All of this right here. www.chronicle.com/article/a-lo...

An internal memo says that the Trump administration has proposed the elimination of all funding for State Department educational and cultural programs, including the Fulbright scholarship, the flagship U.S. exchange program www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A Stanford bachelor's degree recipient in American studies tells men to rethink college and get back to the factory floor. And it's worth noting that many good manufacturing jobs require some type of college education.

but there are no federal or State laws prohibiting the principles of DEI,"says the letter. The NY dept says it already follows civil rights laws, including Title VI.

New York Dept of Education says it will not comply with the US Dept of Ed's order to certify their schools are getting rid of DEI programs. "We understand that the current administration seeks to censor anything it deems ‘diversity, equity & inclusion...

These tariffs could have real effects on construction projects, including those in higher ed www.constructiondive.com/news/trump-t...

SHEEO President @roba88.bsky.social is giving a national perspective on the value of higher education this afternoon on a panel at the University of Georgia's Louise McBee Institute of Higher Education's Momentum & Barriers Symposium: Promoting the Value of Higher Education. Thanks for having us!

Senior Policy Analyst @seanbaser.bsky.social led a panel this afternoon during the Multi-State Data Collaborative Annual Meeting to discuss building capacity and technical support across P20W state sectors for developing data projects and systems that inform policy and practice.

When you unintentionally highlight how efficient the U.S. Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is

NEW: Last week, the Trump administration announced it was slashing the Education Department's workforce in half. This week, the president signed an order declaring he was dismantling the agency "once and for all." In the interim, FSA staffers were quietly rehired. www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Robert Maynard Hutchins nails it on the role of the federal government in education