IHE 09-21-2026 DNU

Evolving guidance from the Education Department shut two students out of federal student loans. “It really feels like someone’s stabbing you,” one mom told Inside Higher Ed.

As the fiscal year’s end looms Sept. 30, the National Science Foundation has awarded significantly fewer grants than usual, and a judge has ordered an update from the Institute of Education Sciences on its research funding progress.

A Philanthropy Roundtable review of legal cases found that donors have little leverage if a university unilaterally rewrites their gift agreement. They believe legislation is needed.

The California State University system is funding projects at 11 campuses aimed at expanding resources, strengthening belonging and making college more family-friendly.

A proposed Department of Education rule would change the purpose of accreditation and risk rendering it less effective.

By Nasser H. Paydar

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers coordinate projects, mentor colleagues and move work forward every day. Why do so many hesitate to see themselves as leaders?

By Caroline Fecher and Paola Cépeda

Readers respond on the “kinda, sorta” requirement.

By Matt Reed

Over four decades, patents, tuition debt and corporate governance turned the American university into a market enterprise. Now the same forces that commercialized higher education use that very transformation to declare it unfit to govern itself.

By Kathy Johnson Bowles