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Visa Delays Persist, Causing Some Students to Defer to Spring

As fall semester gets underway, wide swaths of students are struggling to get visa appointments. It’s unclear how large the drop in international enrollment will be this academic year.

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College Staff Provide Free Admissions Counseling for Cancer Survivors

The National GRACE Foundation helps prospective students with a history of cancer navigate college admissions and financial aid.

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Dems Claim ED Is Making It Harder for Students to File Financial Aid Complaints

Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren and four of her fellow Democrats asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon in a letter Monday why...
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Opinion

What Counts as ‘Unlawful Proxy Discrimination’?

The Trump administration mostly seems concerned about the use of “unlawful proxies” that would benefit Black and Hispanic students in admission, Catharine Hill writes.

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DOJ Deems Definition of Hispanic-Serving Institutions Unconstitutional

The Department of Justice said it won’t defend against a legal challenge to the law defining HSIs as having at least 25 percent Hispanic undergraduates. The program’s future is in jeopardy.

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Survey: Most Students Affected by OBBBA Student Loan Changes

The majority of current college students—61 percent—surveyed recently say that several changes to the federal student loan system that became...
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More UChicago Ph.D. Programs Pause Admissions in Humanities, Social Sciences

The arts and humanities dean said “nearly all” faculty leaders preferred “a broader pause for the division.” Some social sciences programs also aren’t accepting new students.

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Survey Shows Rising Concern Over Federal Aid Staff Cuts

The share of institutions reporting disruptions to financial aid operations is growing—a trend the Education Department calls a biased attempt to “preserve the status quo.”