Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...

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Do you have student debt? How is it affecting your finances -- and your vote? As default rates reach a historic high ahead of the midterms, we want to hear from you for a story on student loans and affordability. Learn more and fill out our brief survey here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Is Student Debt Affecting Your Life — And Your Vote?

After President Donald Trump ended a yearslong pause on student loan collections, default rates are at historic highs. How is education debt squeezing your finances and influencing your vote?

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The number of international graduate students in the US plummeted in 2025 by 12% from a year earlier, & recent data suggests a similar — or even steeper — drop coming this fall. Great story on how Trump is impacting grad schools by @liamknox.bsky.social(gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

How Trump’s Policies Are Hurting Graduate Schools and Universities

Trump’s visa, loan and research policies are putting the $100 billion graduate school market under pressure

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Years of rapid growth made grad schools a pillar of the modern university business model Now visa restrictions, loan limits and research cuts under Trump are threatening that model — and the colleges that depend on it www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

How Trump’s Policies Are Hurting Graduate Schools and Universities

Trump’s visa, loan and research policies are putting the $100 billion graduate school market under pressure

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

Grad Students Face Costly Private Loans After Federal Cuts

Many borrowers will pay more to plug a $10 billion gap.

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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.

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

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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...

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

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.

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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.

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...

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.

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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...

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.

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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...

Dartmouth's Feedback on the Compact | Office of the President

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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.

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 ⬇️

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.

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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...

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.

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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.

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

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.

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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...

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.

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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

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.

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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

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.

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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...

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.

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

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.

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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...

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.

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

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.

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