Top Higher Education News for Monday
Lumina Foundation is committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with high-quality degrees, certificates and other credentials to 60 percent by 2025. |
| Sara Custer, The Key SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn At the beginning of February, the deadly Los Angeles wildfires were fully contained after burning for nearly a month. Hundreds of students and staff lost their homes, and thousands more were displaced. Now that the embers have died out, the president of Glendale Community College shares what his school is doing to rebuild and restore a sense of normalcy to the lives of students and faculty members. |
| David Jesse, The Chronicle of Higher Education SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn The mood at last week's annual gathering of the American Council on Education seemed to mirror the Washington, D.C. weather—gloomy and subdued. In hallway conversations and chats over coffee, presidents seemed weary, battered by weeks of uncertainty about what money would continue to flow into their institutions, what programs they could still run, and who could do anything to generate change in the face of the Trump administration's assault on higher education. |
| Martha Parham, Community College Daily SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn After a storied career spanning more than five decades, American Association of Community Colleges President and CEO Walter G. Bumphus will retire at the end of the year. Bumphus is known as a champion of community colleges, with both education leaders and policymakers praising his ability to bring people with different perspectives and talents together to advance opportunities for the millions of Americans that the institutions serve. |
Wesley Whistle, New America SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn Following the blueprint laid out by Project 2025, President Donald Trump has called for shuttering the U.S. Department of Education. Experts say the abolishment of the agency would be difficult, requiring changes to numerous laws. Still, the elimination of the department is not impossible. Here are six proposals from Project 2025 to shut down the U.S. Department of Education—and why many experts believe students, colleges and universities, and taxpayers would suffer as a result. |
| Michael Horn and Jeff Selingo, Future U SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn This year, thousands of students will be accepted to colleges without ever submitting a formal application. That’s because more and more schools are automatically accepting students who meet preset performance thresholds through direct admissions programs. In this interview, the leader of one of the nation’s largest direct admissions platforms discusses the benefits and risks of this innovation and how it changes the dynamics between schools and students. |
| Johanna Alonso, Inside Higher Ed SHARE: Facebook • LinkedIn As President Donald Trump continues to churn out executive orders negatively affecting the higher education community, some students are surprised to see a lack of campus protests—even at institutions traditionally rife with activism. What accounts for the change in tactics? Students from across the country weigh in. |
| Sarah Carr, The Hechinger Report |
| Jennifer Smith Richards and Jodi Cohen, ProPublica |
| Taylor Jung, NJ Spotlight News |
| Laura Meckler and Hannah Natanson, The Washington Post |
| Leah Willingham, Associated Press |
| Jane Swift, RealClearEducation |
| Iyana Moore, The Education Trust |
| Kevin Richert, Idaho Education News |
| Alex Baumhardt, Oregon Capital Chronicle |
| Anna Barrett, Alabama Reflector |
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