Biden student loan repayment plan to resume amid legal challenges, federal appeals court rules
A federal appeals court will allow a key part of President Joe Biden’s student loan relief plan to resume as the legal challenges against it unfold.
In a Sunday ruling, the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted the Biden administration’s request to stay an order from last week that temporarily blocked a provision of its Saving on a Valuable Education, or SAVE, plan.
Americans are split on Biden’s student loan work, even those with debt, an AP-NORC poll finds
WASHINGTON (AP) — As he campaigns for reelection, President Joe Biden frequently touts his work on student debt, pointing to the millions of people who received cancellation under his watch. Yet relatively few Americans say they’re fans of his work on the issue, even among those who have student loans.
Yale University names Maurie McInnis as its 24th president
Maurie McInnis, a longtime higher education leader and cultural historian, was named the 24th president of Yale University on Wednesday, becoming the first woman to be appointed permanently to the position.
McInnis, 58, is the president of Stony Brook University on Long Island in New York. She will succeed Peter Salovey, who is retiring and taking a faculty position at the Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut, after having led it for the past decade.
Florida again ranked No. 1 for education by U.S. News
Florida is the top state for education for the second year in a row, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking announced Tuesday. The outlet said the state’s standing is “largely fueled by several stellar metrics in higher education, and less so by Florida’s still fairly strong performance in the prekindergarten- through-12th-grade arena.” The recognition follows a period of controversial change in the last two legislative sessions for a system that includes 12 public universities and 28 state colleges. Gov. Ron DeSantis and lawmakers have banned diversity, equity...
Traction for the three-year bachelor’s degree
ANDOVER, Mass.—The stagnation and disinclination to experiment that many critics believe is rife in higher education may loom over some gatherings of campus leaders. The College-in-3 event here this week wasn’t among them. Several dozen college administrators, faculty leaders, accreditors and others gathered at Merrimack College to share progress reports on, and commiserate about, common roadblocks in their efforts to create three-year bachelor’s degrees.
ACT, Inc. to become for-profit, with investment firm collaboration
Iowa City firm will become ‘a type of for-profit company, under the ACT name and brand' IOWA CITY — ACT Inc. — long known for its standardized tests before more recently pursuing a broader mission of research, education and college and career readiness — this week announced a major collaboration with a large California investment firm, shifting the Iowa City-based ACT from a nonprofit to for-profit company. Upon closing the deal with Nexus Capital Management LP, a Los Angeles private equity firm, ACT and an education data research organization it...
Virginia bans legacy admissions at public colleges and universities
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – Virginia’s public universities can’t give preferential treatment to applicants with family ties to alumni or donors starting in July.
Two Democrats carried bills to end legacy admissions that unanimously passed the General Assembly and were signed into law by Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), making Virginia the second state to ban the practice.
Liberty University fined $14M for crime stats, sexual assault victim compliance
(The Center Square) – Virginia’s Liberty University has been fined $14 million in response to an investigation that says the school failed to report campus crime statistics and its handling of victims of sexual assault.
The U.S. Department of Education delivered its largest fine for violating the Clery Act, requiring higher education institutions to “produce and distribute Annual Security Reports containing their campus crime statistics.”
Let’s Seize This Opportunity to Destroy Harvard!
Should Claudine Gay have resigned as president of Harvard? Are conservatives right that a rabidly pro-Hamas left has captured Harvard? Are liberals correct that the fascistic right has launched an all-out assault on academic freedom, at Harvard? The New York Times has explored these questions (about Harvard) over the course of almost 17,000 articles.
Claudine Gay and the Limits of Social Engineering at Harvard
I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like to record what I wrote: “Cancel culture is always ugly and usually a mistake. If Gay is to go, let it be after more deliberation, with more decorum, and when pundits like me aren’t writing about her.” Oh, well.