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Education Department Reopens Income-Driven Repayment Plan Applications

The Department of Education this week reopened a revised application for income-driven loan repayment plans and loan consolidation. This decision—which...
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Is the FAFSA Poised for Another Fiasco?

The federal student aid form had just begun to stabilize after a disastrous launch last winter. Then the Trump administration gutted the agency that manages it.

Jay Bhattacharya Confirmed as NIH Director

The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford...

Youngkin Removes Controversial UVA Board Member

Virginia’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, abruptly removed Bert Ellis—one of his own appointees—from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors...

Tufts Graduate Student Taken Into ICE Custody

Federal immigration authorities arrested a Tufts Ph.D. student Tuesday as part of the Trump administration’s ongoing attempts to deport pro-Palestinian...
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Outspoken Fascism Scholars Leave Yale for Canada

Jason Stanley, decrying Columbia University’s capitulation to the federal government, is leaving for the University of Toronto. So is Marci Shore, who said she fears “civil war.” Timothy Snyder says his motivations were largely personal.

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Banning DEI Is Catastrophic for U.S. Science

An attack on DEI is an attack on science itself, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Stacy C. Farina, Parvin Shahrestani, Vaughn S. Cooper and Gilda A. Barabino write.

Penn Pledges to ‘Address’ $175M Federal Funding Cut

The University of Pennsylvania is “actively pursuing multiple avenues to understand and address” the Trump administration’s decision to withhold $175...