Top Higher Education News for Friday
Lumina Foundation is working to increase the share of adults in the U.S. labor force with college degrees or other credentials of value leading to economic prosperity. |
| Michelle Asha Cooper, Diverse Issues in Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Today’s college students face immense challenges. This generation is coming of age in a world shaped by instability. They are digital natives—always connected, yet deeply isolated and yearning for authentic human connection. They have survived a pandemic but still live in the shadows of economic uncertainty and climate change. They are struggling not only to pay tuition but also to meet their most basic needs: food, housing, and, in some cases, childcare. On behalf of students, we must confront this crisis with compassion, collaboration, and conviction, writes Lumina Foundation's Michelle Asha Cooper in this op-ed. |
| Vivian Wang, The New York Times SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn China was already scoring wins in its rivalry with the United States for scientific talent. It had drawn some of the world’s best researchers to its campuses, people decorated with Nobel Prizes, MacArthur “Genius” grants, and seemingly every other academic laurel on offer. Now the Trump administration’s policies might soon bolster China’s efforts. |
| Eric Kelderman, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn President Donald Trump is yet again escalating his fight with the Ivy League, pressuring Columbia University’s accreditor to take action over allegations the institution violated federal anti-discrimination laws. The threat against Columbia is another example of how the Trump administration is stretching the boundaries of federal law and regulation to achieve its ideological goals, accreditation experts say. While it’s unlikely to result in any significant penalty against Columbia, let alone a loss of accreditation, the move could also give the U.S. Department of Education a pretext to punish the accreditor. |
| Willem Marx, NPR SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The Trump administration's proposals to tighten entry visa restrictions for international students could significantly reduce their numbers at U.S. universities in the years ahead. However, several education experts say the consequences may also be felt by some students and schools in Britain, as elite U.K. institutions prepare for a potential influx of international applicants redirected from the United States. |
| Gabriela Montell, The Education Trust SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Getting to and through college isn’t straightforward. Recent attacks by the Trump administration on universities, free speech, campus DEI initiatives, and efforts to undercut the federal student loan and financial aid system only add to this challenge and threaten to make life harder for many students—especially first-generation students, students of color, and students from low-income backgrounds. In this essay, a student at a private university in Colorado talks about her academic journey and how this administration’s policies are affecting students and campus life at her college. |
| Joshua Coe, The World SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Universities in the United States face the possibility of federal funding cuts if they don’t comply with President Donald Trump's demands to walk back initiatives that his administration deems biased. Internationally, the use of federal funding to force change in higher education settings is nothing new. The Trump administration might be learning from Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán. |
| Laura Ascione, eCampus News |
| Shaun Harper, Resident Scholar |
| Ashley Mowreader, Inside Higher Ed |
| Jeff Doyle, The EvoLLLution |
| Maddie Aiken, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |
| Alcino Donadel, University Business |
| Jesse Collings, Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
| Diane Mwai, Advance Local |
| Miles Menetrey, The Sacramento Bee |
| Hannah Gross, NJ Spotlight News |
| Amy Morona, Signal Cleveland |
| Kate Payne, Associated Press |
| Ethan Sandweiss, Indiana Public Media |
| Public Policy Institute of California |
| Annenberg Institute at Brown University |
| Center for American Progress |
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