Recent White House executive orders regarding federal grants disrupt scientific research

February 20, 2025

INSIDE HIGER ED — As the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation review grants and programming for verboten topics—including DEI and “gender ideology”—many researchers aren’t sure if their projects will pass Trump’s nebulous, ideological tests.

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US Department of Defense bars diversity, equity, and inclusion curriculum at military academies

February 19, 2025

HIGHER ED DIVE — The three colleges under the U.S. Department of Defense are also banned from teaching “gender ideology,” as defined by recent executive orders.

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University accreditors prepare for federal policy changes

February 19, 2025

HIGHER ED DIVE — On the 2024 campaign trail, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump accused the nation’s faculty of being “obsessed with indoctrinating America’s youth” and declared, “The time has come to reclaim our once great educational institutions from the radical Left.”

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US House committee considers how to improve learning outcomes and ease college debt

February 19, 2025

HIGHER ED DIVE — Republican and Democratic members of a House education panel agreed Wednesday that K-12 schools need a stronger focus on improving academic outcomes for students — but they had vastly different views on the direction the nation’s schools should take.

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A look at White House proposals for the future of the US Department of Education

February 19, 2025

HIGHER ED DIVE — The rapid pace of the new Trump administration’s efforts to abolish the U.S. Department of Education has caught many student advocates off guard and on the defensive while bringing praise from those supportive of less federal bureaucracy and more local control. 

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Higher education sees increase in state funding for the 2025 fiscal year

February 19, 2025

HIGHER ED DIVE — Support for institutions is up by a third from five years ago, according to early data from the annual Grapevine report.

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How changes to US Department of Education affect higher education

February 19, 2025

INSIDE HIGHER ED — Republicans’ long-sought goal of shuttering the Education Department got a boost this week as several media outlets reported the Trump administration was finalizing plans for an executive order to wind down the agency.

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Opinion: People must stand up against attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts

February 19, 2025

INSIDE HIGHER ED — President Trump’s attacks on DEI are damaging and dehumanizing, DeRionne P. Pollard writes.

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Rutgers cancels HBCU event amid diversity, equity, and inclusion White House executive orders

February 19, 2025

INSIDE HIGHER ED — The Rutgers University Center for Minority Serving Institutions announced Thursday that it has canceled an upcoming virtual conference about registered apprenticeship programs as a result of President Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

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