Survey finds that three in five college students lack sufficient food and housing
INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Hope Center’s most recent basic needs survey shows while a majority of respondents lacked essentials, including food and housing, fewer than half engaged with institutional supports to mitigate these challenges.
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IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH — The Iowa House Higher Education Committee moved several bills to the House floor Wednesday focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion practices at community colleges and private universities, among other topics.
Read More about Iowa House of Representatives approves bills related to DEI and transparencyA look at the most significant federal actions facing higher education
MASS LIVE — A dizzying flurry of executive orders followed by legal stays or reversals has characterized federal policy toward higher education over the past month.
Read More about A look at the most significant federal actions facing higher educationOpinion: College leadership should push back on federal policies
DIVERSE — On the day of his death in 2020, an op-ed appeared in the New York Times, pre-written by Congressman John Lewis, urging Americans to stand up for justice and what he called “good trouble, necessary trouble.
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WTOL 11 — The bill, which has passed in the state senate, would also prevent faculty from striking.
Read More about Video: Ohio lawmakers react to recent federal orders on higher educationHow friendships can be beneficial to graduate students
INSIDE HIGHER ED — Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars can benefit in many ways from prioritizing friendships, Yi Hao and Mallory Neil write.
Read More about How friendships can be beneficial to graduate studentsA look at steps to close a university
INSIDE HIGHER ED — There is no good time in the calendar year to announce a closure of a university. Such an announcement will be immediately met with a vast array of feelings ranging from anger to grief, all of which should be validated.
Read More about A look at steps to close a universityMichigan governor pushes for male college enrolment after recent drop
FOX 47 NEWS — Gov. Whitmer to sign an executive directive to boost young men’s education and training.
Read More about Michigan governor pushes for male college enrolment after recent dropTexas legislature considers higher education budget cuts
HOODLINE — Texas has a $24 billion surplus, but the state’s legislature has proposed budget cuts that could significantly reduce funding for higher education.
Read More about Texas legislature considers higher education budget cutsOpinion: How the Department of Education could change the law school accreditation process
THE REGULATORY REVIEW — On February 14, the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Andrew N. Ferguson, announced that political appointees employed by the Commission can no longer be members of the American Bar Association (ABA) and that the Commission will no longer support any employee’s membership in the ABA.
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