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Students sit on a lawn outside academic buildings at Nassau Community College.

Nassau Community College Prepared to Sue Over Rejected Presidential Pick

Trustees at Nassau Community College are poised to file a lawsuit after the State University of New York’s Board of...
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Education Department Names 5 New Accreditation Advisers

The new members of the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity include some outspoken conservative voices.

An illustration of a bunch of diplomas stuffed into a trash can in the shape of the state of Indiana. The background has a map of the United States and the University of Indiana overlaid in it.

Indiana May Reject New Degrees That Don’t Commit to ‘Values of American Society’

Indiana may reject proposed degree programs at public institutions that don’t “cultivate civic responsibility and commitment to the core values...

Weekly Wisdom | SHEEO President Rob Anderson

What does it take to lead higher education at the system level?

A piece of filmstrip of President Jimmy Carter signing into law the creation of the Department of Education over a collection of environmental portraits of presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

Trump’s Effort to Break Up Education Dept. Part of Long History

An iteration of the department in 1867 lasted about a year before being demoted and not resurfacing until the Carter administration. Department or no, both Democrats and Republicans have expanded the federal role in education.

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Public Universities Don’t Want to Discuss the Compact

Institutions have been slow to respond to records requests related to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” and UT Austin is fighting to withhold records.

USC Trojans offense at the line of scrimmage before an extra point attempt during the game against Michigan Wolverines at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Oct. 11, 2025, in Los Angeles

Secretive Big Ten Deal Riles Trustees

The Big Ten is weighing a $2.4 billion private equity deal. But multiple trustees at member institutions say they aren’t getting enough information and the proposal has been rushed.

Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, Kenneth Starr, Lawrence M. Krauss and Noam Chomsky, all of them older white men

5 Higher Ed Names in the Epstein Files

Both houses of Congress voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to release the rest of the trove of documents related to Epstein. Here are some of the key higher ed people mentioned so far.