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From @jessicablake.bsky.social, who is in the room, ED reached consensus on its proposed professional definition, which was released last night.

So that's a wrap on this neg reg. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
ED Releases Proposal for Defining Professional Programs
The Department of Education released its latest proposal Wednesday for determining which post-baccalaureate degree programs get access to what amount of federal loans under Congress’ One Big Beautiful...
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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University of Austin to End Tuition ‘Forever’ with Help of $100M Gift
U Austin Announces $100M Gift, End to Tuition ‘Forever’
After receiving even more support from a big conservative donor, the not-yet-accredited institution announced it will neither charge tuition nor accept government funds. Some are skeptical.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Students, Unions to Protest Trump’s Higher Ed Agenda Friday
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Students, Unions to Protest Trump’s Higher Ed Agenda Friday
Members of the American Association of University Professors, the affiliated American Federation of Teachers and student groups are planning protests in more than 50 cities Friday against “the Trump a...
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November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Trump Research Funding Plans: Penalize ‘Repeat Players,’ Reward Compact Signers
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Trump Funding Plans Could Harm Top Research Universities
Before his administration asked universities to sign a compact in exchange for federal funding priority, the president ordered that grants shouldn’t be given “to a select group of repeat players.” Bot...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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A useful list of donors:
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Trump’s Team Offers to Keep Some Ballroom Donors Incognito
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November 2, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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21 States, D.C. Ask Court to Reverse Ed Department’s TRIO Grant Rejections
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21 States, D.C. Ask Court to Reverse TRIO Grant Rejections
Democratic attorneys general from 21 states and Washington, D.C., filed briefs this week asking a court to reverse the Trump administration’s rejection of grants supporting TRIO programs, which help d...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Faculty union rep: “You can’t discriminate against someone based on foreign birth. My big question coming away from this is: Where’s the authority?”

Florida public universities have employed nearly 3,000 people via the H-1B program since 2022.
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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DeSantis to Florida Universities: ‘Pull the Plug’ on H-1B Visa Workers
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DeSantis to FL Universities: ‘Pull the Plug’ on H-1B Workers
Complaining about professors from China, Europe and “supposed Palestine,” the Republican governor apparently called for his state’s public universities to end the use of the visa program. A union lead...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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From @bloomberg.com: A top biosecurity adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services who believed messenger RNA Covid vaccines should be taken off the market was fired over the weekend www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Fires Top Health Official Who Opposed Widely Used Covid Shots
A top biosecurity adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services who believed messenger RNA Covid vaccines should be taken off the market was fired over the weekend, an agency official said.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Trump’s UCLA Demand: $1.2B Fine and Limits on Trans, Foreign Student Freedoms
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Trump UCLA Demand: $1.2B Fine, Nix Trans Athlete Wins, More
A faculty lawsuit forced the university to release a 27-page draft “resolution agreement,” which would also require UCLA and affiliated hospitals to stop “performing hormonal interventions and ‘transg...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Using an Anti-KKK Law to End a Black-Only Scholarship
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Black-Only Scholarship Ends After Opponents Use Anti-KKK Law
Citing the KKK Act of 1871, the Pacific Legal Foundation and another anti–affirmative action group sued to end a race-restricted scholarship at UC San Diego. Now, the Black Alumni Scholarship Fund has...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Why did he call it Mad Max. That doesn't sound safe www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Musk doubles down in fight with Trump administration, risking his empire
The tech executive has shown little sign of backing down from a battle over the future of NASA. It has spilled into the Transportation Department, which oversees regulation for Tesla.
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October 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Georgia Tech says it’s cutting expenses to “preserve cash,” the University of Hawaiʻi system is paying federally funded workers $20 million every two weeks and a N.J. community college says a solar energy training program is in jeopardy.
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In Fourth Week, Federal Shutdown Increasingly Hinders Higher Ed
Georgia Tech says it’s cutting expenses to “preserve cash,” the University of Hawaiʻi system is paying federally funded workers $20 million every two weeks and a N.J. community college says a solar en...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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University of Illinois System Bans Consideration of Race, Sex in Hiring, Tenure, Student Aid
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UI Bans Considering Race, Sex in Hiring, Tenure, Student Aid
The University of Illinois system is telling its institutions they can’t consider race, color, national origin or sex in hiring, tenure, promotion and student financial aid decisions—a move that’s dra...
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October 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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As an administrator, unwritten rules or verbal guidance are typically unenforceable upon any appeals to upper administration.

But when upper administration won't put things in writing...
Unwritten Policies Sow Faculty Fears. Are They Enforceable?
A growing number of institutions are censoring faculty speech and instruction through murky verbal directives that sow fear and confusion. Can they be enforced?
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October 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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I forgot to call upon #edusky
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Hi I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing about which universities are cutting travel expenses, freezing hiring or slashing other costs citing the fed government shutdown. Please DM me or email me any examples at ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today (especially statements on websites)!
October 21, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Hi I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing about which universities are cutting travel expenses, freezing hiring or slashing other costs citing the fed government shutdown. Please DM me or email me any examples at ryan.quinn@insidehighered.com today (especially statements on websites)!
October 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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This is a good look at the current status of the Institute of Education Sciences. The interim head has some good plans, but DOGE, Vought, and the government shutdown make me pessimistic about IES's future.
Trump Gutted IES. Skepticism of Its Renewal Abounds.
The Education Department recently requested ideas on how to “modernize” the data collection and education research funding agency, and it sought to hire for a few positions.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Amber Northern, the special adviser tasked with reforming IES, will giver her report in Dec. But with the government shutdown and staff cuts can she deliver? @ryanequinn.bsky.social looks into the confusion surrounding the future of federal education data www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
Trump Gutted IES. Skepticism of Its Renewal Abounds.
The Education Department recently requested ideas on how to “modernize” the data collection and education research funding agency, and it sought to hire for a few positions.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Trump Gutted the Institute of Education Sciences. Its Renewal Is in Doubt.
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Trump Gutted IES. Skepticism of Its Renewal Abounds.
The Education Department recently requested ideas on how to “modernize” the data collection and education research funding agency, and it sought to hire for a few positions.
www.insidehighered.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Cease fire is foundering
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Israel Suspends Aid and Strikes Gaza After Accusing Hamas of Violating Truce
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October 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Blanche and Bondi "bonded, in particular, over their mutual disdain for the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, whom they view as a lightweight more interested in social media than doing his job, according to seven current and former administration officials."

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Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2
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October 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Vanderbilt and Arizona are playing football at the moment and are unavailable. Texas is probably huddled up with politicians and board members.
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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In the past 24 hours, two more colleges have rejceted the compact. That leaves Arizona, UT Austin & Vanderbilt of the original 9 who haven’t responded. Monday is the deadline. @ryanequinn.bsky.social reports www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
UVA, Dartmouth Reject Trump Compact
The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
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October 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Dartmouth makes it six colleges and universities to publicly reject Trump's higher ed compact.

Three (of original 9) to go!
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UVA, Dartmouth Reject Trump Compact
The University of Virginia is the first public, and Southern, institution to publicly turn down the administration's “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
www.insidehighered.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM