This isn't getting nearly enough attention. It's becoming a problem in other states, too.

Tennessee Lookout@tennesseelookout.com · 2h ago

Tennessee Lottery proceeds that fund many of the state’s college and technical education scholarships are projected to fall short of covering those programs’ costs each year through 2030, according to a report released Tuesday.

Student debt is a life-structuring system. After surveying 1,600+ borrowers and conducting in-depth interviews, I built an interactive site showing how debt reshapes careers, families, mental health, trust, and adulthood. Take a look more-than-a-monthly-payment.daniel-anthony-colli.chatgpt.site

More Than a Monthly Payment

A mixed-methods portrait of student debt.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD@dcollier74.bsky.social · 22h ago

Student debt is more than a monthly payment. My new public research site brings together 1,810 survey records and 67 interviews on financial security, well-being, college value, and repayment. more-than-a-monthly-payment.daniel-anthony-colli.chatgpt.site #StudentDebt

Lawsuits about ED's definition of professional students remain active, even as loans are being disbursed for the impending academic year. There may well be changes to some programs' loan limits during the academic year, which will be confusing for students and aid administrators.

Nursing Coalition Challenges ED’s Professional Degrees List

A coalition of advanced nurses, public health workers, teachers and therapists is once again challenging how the Department of Education determines which graduate programs qualify for higher loan caps...

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It's hard to do worse as a guest playcaller than Richard Nixon, so why not raise a bit of revenue for a mid-major school? www.espn.com/college-foot...

Akron football season-ticket holder can design opening drive of game

All current season-ticket holders are automatically entered into a random drawing for the promotion, according to Akron, and they'll work with the head coach.

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It seems pretty likely that institutions that sign on to the new version of the higher education compact will get some preferential treatment for research funding.

‘Radical Reform’: Trump Official Explains New Plan to Get Colleges to Change

Jonathan Pidluzny spoke to The Chronicle on the administration’s statement of priorities for higher ed, and why “silence would speak volumes.”

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Do you use data classified by NAICS code? Updates are under consideration. Review the proposed update and consider submitting comments www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Statistical Policy Directive No. 8: North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)-Request for Comments on Proposed Updates for 2027

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) seeks public comment on the advisability of adopting the proposed North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) updates for 2027 recommended by its Ec...

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Can't get any more efficient than the first sentence of this abstract. doi.org/10.1162/REST...

Tertiary enrolments in China were down last year for the first time since Deng Xiaoping came to power in 1978. Undergraduate enrolments for 18-21 year olds are holding up OK. It's online enrolments and enrolments in "Adult Higher Education Institutions" that are falling.

Here's the Association of Governing Boards' statement on the McMahon letter: agb.org/news/press-r...

CEO Statement on Today's National Call to Action from the Secretary of Education

AGB responds to the Secretary of Education's call to action by reaffirming board independence and institutional autonomy

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www.chronicle.com/article/purd...

Purdue’s Mitch Daniels Warns Against Conditioning Research Grants on Reforms

Daniels, who is back at the university as its interim leader, believes higher ed should change but says government pressure can risk harming “the advantages of the world’s best research.”

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Brown University's president is stepping down after fifteen years in the position. Finding a replacement will be interesting.

President Paxson and Chancellor Moynihan announce presidential transition after 2026-27 academic year

In a pair of letters to the Brown community, the leaders assert that a new strategic planning process should start with a new leader who will steward Brown’s next chapter, to be identified in a nation...

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It is increasingly challenging to run a national organization across red and blue states in 2026. The AAU is held together by prestige and tradition, but will that be enough?

Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · 2d ago

The presidents of WashU, Arizona State, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins, in concert with the Association of American Universities, helped draft a new version of last year's White House compact. “We’d much rather be a partner than play the guessing game as we have been,” Kansas' president told Bloomberg.

Last summer #RiHE solicited submissions for a special issue featuring National Center for Education Statistic's data. The issue is now complete, with 15 publications reviewed over the past year using a range of data sets from #NCES on a variety of topics. link.springer.com/collections/...

Today marks the start of my sixth year as a faculty member at UTK, my second term as department head here, and my fourteenth year as a professor overall. I'm getting grayer by the year, but am still having a lot of fun.

Another year, another attempt for a higher education compact.

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

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...

Fooling around doing global enrolment projections, based on projected changes in GDP and youth cohort population. The China numbers are...sobering. (enrolments, in millions)

Colleges are pursuing lots of options to put (sweaty) butts in seats. Now flag football joins the list of sports bring added as an enrollment management strategy.

Women’s Flag Football Gains Traction in the NCAA

Nearly 400 colleges will compete at the club or varsity level next spring, making women's flag football one of the fastest-growing collegiate sports. Athletic directors say it’s a useful recruitment t...

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This is an absolutely stupid comparison because nurses have pensions, healthcare and other benefits, as well as a strong presumption of continued employment over a career. It also highlights white point in time ROI measures get things wrong. 

Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m with the boomers on this one. Burn it all down

We are hosting the MidSouth Education Policy Workshop again this year on Oct 8-9 at UK! The goal is to bring researchers and policy professionals together to share work, get feedback, and network. Call for papers (due Aug 21) and more information here: martin.uky.edu/2026-midsout....

2026 MidSouth Education Public Policy Workshop | Martin School of Public Policy and Administration

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I sorta wanna sit in the class just for fun

Luke Steuber@coolhand.bsky.social · 4d ago

I’m with the boomers on this one. Burn it all down

They’re married now! Perhaps everyone on Bluesky already knows this; if the reader isn’t, then they get to be one of today’s lucky 10,000. www.inverse.com/input/cultur...

The adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photos

Nearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told.

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Tonight was homemade pizza night, featuring sauce made from garden herbs and vegetables.

1/2 I have a close friend who was a member of the committee that recommended the re-test and their deliberations sounded grueling and stressful. And I think it points to a larger social problem: any sense of fairness through rationing social opportunities via “educational merit” is gone, everywhere.

Did 75,000 Students Cheat on a College-Entrance Exam in Mexico?

The country’s largest public university is requiring all students who passed its entrance exam to take a new test after experts found evidence of widespread cheating, including with A.I.

nytimes.com

The Big Ten and SEC suddenly agreed to support the Senate's college athletics bill after securing a large increase in how much schools can directly pay athletes. The big questions now are whether smaller conferences will try to push back and whether the Congress can pass *any* legislation.

Big Ten, SEC support college sports bill, reviving Senate chances

The Big Ten and SEC conferences agreed Friday night to support a Senate bill that seeks to regulate college sports.

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New study out in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis with Will Zahran, Hope Allchin, @justinortagus.bsky.social @kellyrosinger.bsky.social @robertkelchen.com. We find that tying state funding to degrees in high-demand fields like STEM and health didn't boost completion doi.org/10.3102/0162...

All the breathless coverage about evangelist Tommie Zito buying Green Mountain College to launch a network of international universities didn't add up. So I dug in and found that he started a short-lived Bible college in 2015 and has a history of grandiose promises and fabrications. bit.ly/3RCRknd

A Green Mountain College Resurrection?

An evangelist wants to reopen a closed campus in rural Vermont. But the finances and strategy are unclear, and his prior attempt at running a college raises questions.

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It seems like half the stories I write these days involve a college cutting programs and jobs. This week I got to write about one trying to do something else to stop the bleeding.

What Can a Struggling University Do if It Can’t Cut Any More? Change.

Instead of continuing to shrink, Southern Oregon U. is trying to shift how it functions.

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This is quite a piece. I'm not a fan of MMA (even though I was a wrestler in high school), but this has a lot of contradictions to think through.

The University Where Students Beat Each Other Up, for Scholarships

On the campy, violent, inspiring, dismaying, downright-confusing world of Sacramento State’s Combat U.

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The Iowa Board of Regents voted to suspend all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom until 2028 as the search for its permanent director continues.

Center for Intellectual freedom classes on hold

This is an installment in a multipart series The Iowa Board of Regents voted Wednesday to pause all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom, citing the need to...

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The Senate HELP committee passed a bill that would block the Trump administration from transferring many functions (including postsecondary education) out of the Department of Education, but would allow student loans to be transferred to Treasury.

Senate education committee blocks parts of Trump’s Education Department breakup

Sen. Tim Kaine negotiated a bipartisan bill to stop the department from offloading special education, K-12 programs and additional functions to other federal agencies.

politico.com