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From Inside Higher Ed: “Wesleyan University will no longer consider applicants’ ties to alumni in admissions decisions, the institution announced last week. Wesleyan president Michael… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Yesterday the Education Department opened a federal civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s policy of preferential admissions treatment for the children… Read More

From The New York Times: “Elite colleges have long been filled with the children of the richest families: At Ivy League schools, one in six… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Dozens of famous employers—including investment bank Goldman Sachs and other luminaries like Deloitte, GE, IBM, JPMorgan, Nestlé, UBS and Rolls-Royce—have begun… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “The number of high schoolers taking college classes has been surging for more than two decades. In what is called dual… Read More

From Forbes: “A recent report by McKinsey and Company issues a bold challenge: graduate ten million more students than currently projected over the next 20… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Congress has a chance in the coming months to close a loophole that has allowed states to deprive Black… Read More

From The Hechinger Report: “A university where students can start at any of six times during the year, take just one subject at a time… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “In a message to the campus, Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz said, ‘Our responsibility to comply with the law does not mean… Read More

From The Washington Post: “Karen McCarthy, vice president of public policy and federal relations at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, said school… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Invest in more need-based financial aid. About 25 percent of financial aid provided by colleges goes to students from… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Some leaders of historically Black colleges and universities expect the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action to bring a flood… Read More

From Lawyers for Civil Rights: “The Chica Project, the African Community Economic Development of New England (ACEDONE), and the Greater Boston Latino Network (GBLN) filed… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan replaces the existing Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) Plan. SAVE increases the… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “The administration said in April 2022 that it would adjust accounts to give borrowers credit for payments and time spent in… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Faculty and students are taking to learning in the metaverse, but universities wonder how they will pay for it once Meta’s… Read More

From The Chronicle of Higher Education: “Five years ago, roughly half of people surveyed by Gallup expressed confidence in colleges and universities. That share has… Read More

From Forbes: “Big-data research supported by Lumina Foundation on media narratives shows positive stories about higher education frequently go unheard, and damaging narratives have moved… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “According to the OfS’ annual report, the most recent figures showed that 5.2 per cent of all providers were below baseline… Read More

From Times Higher Education: “The nation’s top court voted 6-2 and 6-3 against race-based considerations in cases from Harvard University and the University of North… Read More

From Bloomberg: “Harvard University was accused by minority groups of violating federal law by giving preferential treatment in the admissions process to children of alumni… Read More

From The New York Times: “For many of the Black, Hispanic and Native Americans whose lives were shaped by affirmative action, this moment has prompted… Read More

From University World News: ”The SCOTUS left in place the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program and the Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Plan. Under the PSLF,… Read More

From Inside Higher Ed: “Texas is on the brink of instituting a new funding model for community colleges that would base most state funding on… Read More