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The administration proposed to use its “compromise and settlement” powers under the Higher Education Act of 1965. But what does that mean?

Pressed on the effects of affirmative action in higher education, Mike Pence conceded, "I don’t know the numbers." Maybe he should?

Some advocates of the debt forgiveness wanted the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 from the beginning.

Not surprisingly, after Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices ended affirmative action in higher education student admissions, the Republicans running for president celebrated the decision.

In two recent decisions — on student loans and on affirmative action — the Supreme Court has radically altered the landscape of higher education. The Opinion columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom argues that, for many, the promise of higher education is now dead and so the country needs a new vision for how to achieve the American dream.

With the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on affirmative action, the world of higher education is poised for a transformation.

NC Attorney General Josh Stein says the supermajority in the North Carolina legislature could be a thing of the past following the 2024 state elections, and details how he plans to address those divisive issues if elected governor in North Carolina.

Some advocates of the debt forgiveness wanted the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act of 1965 from the beginning. By Charlie Savage Even as he denounced the Supreme Court ruling ...

There was also segregation in public universities and in private institutions of higher education. And so essentially, the question was, how now do we move forward and provide opportunity when there has been this long history of excluding people of color ...

Higher education should not be a one size fits all approach! The new president of Mount Holyoke College Danielle Holley joins Symone D. Sanders Townsend to emphasize the importance of embracing the “whole student” when it comes to college admissions.

Americans’ confidence in higher education has declined significantly, especially among Republicans, according to a new Gallup poll.

Calls for the Biden administration to use the Higher Education Act to continue loan forgiveness were made after the Supreme Court struck down his plan for student debt relief.

Driving the news: Just 36% of Americans said they have confidence in higher education. Trust in major U.S. institutions overall has dropped. Confidence fell from 48% in 2018 and 57% in 2015. Details: All major subgroups, polled between June 1-22, expressed less confidence in higher education, especially Republicans.

Joe Biden is launching a new effort with the Higher Education Act to forgive at least some student loan debt after the Supreme Court ruling against him

Sharp racial and ethnic divisions over who has bachelor’s degrees remain — and who gets the long-term socioeconomic benefits they confer.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court restricted race-based affirmative action policies, changing the landscape of higher education in the United States. Today, we look at what this decision means for ...

Hours after the decision, President Biden announced that he had directed Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to start a process under a law known as the Higher Education Act to compromise ...

The California State University system selected longtime higher education leader Mildred García as its next chancellor.

Next, national higher education reporter Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and deputy politics editor for NextGen Brianna Tucker examine the impact of the Supreme Court decision to strike down President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan. On Washington Post ...

The Supreme Court’s June decision putting an end to the use of affirmative action in higher education admissions paved the way for potentially dramatic changes in who gets into college and where they go.

How should we respond to the attacks against higher ed: continue the lay low strategy, or maybe go on the attack? Both carry risks, but there's another option.

Confidence in higher education hit a new low as universities have become entangled in political controversies while their cost has skyrocketed, according to a new Gallup poll.  The survey shows

A group of Republican U.S. state attorney generals on Thursday warned the country's largest companies that certain workforce diversity policies could be illegal in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision effectively striking down affirmative action in higher education.

A new Gallup poll found that Americans are continuing to lose confidence in higher education, declining to a new low point.

With the affirmative action case, we got started around February or March. Henry and Ira Porter, who [is] our higher education reporter, came up with a series of articles that we’ve been rolling out all spring. It did not feel like a leap to send Ira to ...

Education is now the most politically polarized institution in America and this will have disastrous effects on talent and economic development for decades to come.

If we fail to make significant structural reforms to the federal higher education system, another generation of students and families will inevitably face the same hurdles so many face today.

American confidence in higher education has sunk to a new low, according to a new Gallup poll. Just 36% of adults expressed high levels of confidence in higher ed.

FILE – Kari Lake speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. A top Republican election official in Arizona filed a defamation lawsuit on Thursday, June 22, against Lake, who falsely claims she lost the 2022 race for governor because of fraud. (AP Photo/Alex Brando, File)

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to overturn affirmative action in higher education comes at a time when racial inequality in K-12 schools is deep and growing. The court’s decision immediately

For decades, the political debate on higher education reform could largely be understood in simple terms. Democrats wanted to spend more money on higher education, and Republicans wanted to spend less — mostly within the nation’s preexisting policy infrastructure.

Trust in higher education has fallen sharply among adults responding to Gallup polling as inflation jacks up costs.

According to Gallup, those with a "great deal" or "quite a lot" of confidence in higher education has declined 21 points since 2015.

The public's trust in higher education institutions nationwide sharply declined in the past year, according to a new Gallup poll.

The way to forgive student loans is through Congress. The way to fix inflation in higher education is for the government to stop issuing and guaranteeing student loans. Biden is choosing to ignore those realities to buy the loyalty of federal student loan borrowers.

President Biden has quickly pivoted to Plan B after the Supreme Court struck down his student loan forgiveness plan.

President said he had directed his team to launch a new program to cancel student debt using a different legal authority, the Higher Education Act of 1965.

A new Gallup poll shows that the public's confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. It may be unfortunate that such an important institution’s prestige is declining, but it is by no means surprising.

Beto O’Rourke and Tim Ryan could not win a United States Senate race, but maybe they can get a spot on the faculty senate.

The administration will try this pathway as an alternative to the HEROES Act of 2003, which pathway was shut down by today's Supreme Court decision.

Between the student loan crisis and rampant campus craziness — from woke curriculum to out-of-control language policing — is it any wonder?

The sad stories are about the unfortunate young Americans who have gone far into debt for their college credentials and now find that those credentials won’t help them land high-paying jobs. Bunch takes us back to the Occupy Wall Street days and the red-hot rhetoric about the unfair wealth of the One Percent and the misery of the rest of us.

While it’s a good (late) start, this set of bills is not enough. Republicans should use the loan forgiveness situation as an opportunity to take higher education policy more seriously. They have a chance to reframe the issue away from the stale “college for all” message.

Reactions from university administrators to the recent Supreme Court decision show what they lose by being one-sided.

No charge. What do you get when a columnist who reveres Bernie Sanders writes about higher education? A book that’s long on emotion and sad stories, but extremely short on insight into our ...

The Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in higher education enjoys wide public support,” but more remains to be done, including eliminating universities’ “legacy admissions,”

Years before the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action in higher education, Florida unilaterally banned the use of race as a factor in college admissions.

Higher education will be less ethnically diverse if we let in more Asians is certainly a unique and bold position for supposed non-racists to take.

Harvard’s Dishonest Honesty Scientist Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg The Attack on Nonprofit Free Speech Continues The Intensifying Newsom–DeSantis Rivalry The academy is primed to be a ...

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