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Exclusive | Federal education bigs threaten accrediting agency if DEI standards...
WASHINGTON, DC -- The US Education Department is threatening to thwart a key college accrediting agency that serves as a "gatekeeper" for $100 billion in student loans and grants if it refuses to permanently nix its DEI standards.
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MacKenzie Scott Makes Another Blockbuster Gift To An HBCU
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Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is continuing her remarkable giving campaign to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, this time with a record-setting gift of $42 million to Elizabeth City State University.
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Opinion | Colleges have an obligation to ensure their students pay off their loans
Linda McMahon is the secretary of education.
Since taking office, the Trump administration has tackled the exploitative behavior of institutions burdening everyday Americans -- from big banks in housing to health care companies driving up costs.
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Judge to decide if Penn must produce records in probe of antisemitism at Ivy League school
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The federal government's demand for information about the membership of Jewish groups from the University of Pennsylvania in an investigation into whether antisemitism has created a hostile environment for employees landed Tuesday before a federal judge who will decide whether to enforce a subpoena.
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Professors sound the alarm on huge rise of students registering as...
Professors are calling out the alarming rise in students diagnosed as "disabled" at elite universities to get special accommodations in class and on exams.
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What's next for 7 million student-loan borrowers now that SAVE is over
Repayment for millions of student-loan borrowers could soon look very different.
In recent days, a series of court decisions sealed the fate of the SAVE student-loan repayment plan, which has been up in the air for years.
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Ohio State University President Ted Carter resigns over "inappropriate relationship"
Ohio State University is investigating after President Walter "Ted" Carter Jr. resigned abruptly over the weekend following the disclosure of "an inappropriate relationship" with a woman seeking public resources for her personal business, the university said Monday.
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Student loan update: New lawsuit pushes to forgive debt for millions
A new lawsuit filed Monday is hoping to force the U. S. Department of Education to immediately forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers enrolled in a key federal repayment program.
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At college sports roundtable, Trump says 'whole educational system' could go out of business unless fixed
President Trump predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U. S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly -- something some sports leaders who joined him Friday at a White House summit agreed could only happen by raising more money to pay players.
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'Only Nazis ban books': on the frontlines with students fighting Trump over higher education
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It took a half century to build New College into a sanctuary of independent thought and less than a year to destroy it.
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Can private lenders fill the student loan gap? College presidents say no.
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The Republican strategy for reining in the ever-climbing cost of college rests on a simple concept: Tuition keeps increasing because it's too easy for people to take on more and more federal student debt.
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Colleges See Spike in Students With Disabilities, Including Elite Schools
The number of college students reporting disabilities rose more than 50 percent over the last decade across a wide swath of schools, including at some of the most selective universities in the nation, according to a New York Times analysis of government data.
