Higher Education Policy Minute

U.S. Senator and candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released a plan for higher education...

Inside Higher Education reports that a top official in the Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) in the U.S. Department of Education, A....

Last week, Democrats in the House of Representatives released a proposed bill for reauthorizing the Higher Education Act. The bill,...

Inside Higher Education reports that Congress's delay in providing hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for Historically Black...

Following the release of former Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE)'s higher education plan earlier this week, Inside Higher Education is...

Inside Higher Education is reporting on the growing momentum of the movement for college athletes to receive compensation. Earlier this...

A federal court ruled yesterday that Harvard University's race-conscious admissions policy does not violate the Constitution. The...

At its annual meeting this past weekend, the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) voted overwhelmingly to change...

From Inside Higher Education: "The Trump-appointed National Labor Relations Board wants to make sure -- really sure -- that graduate...

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chair of the Senate Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, blocked legislation yesterday that...

Inside Higher Education is reporting that Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is expected to "introduce legislation soon that would offer a...

Inside Higher Education reports that, following some high-profile disruptions of controversial campus speakers over the past few years, a...

The Ohio State University's recent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to trademark "THE" has been denied, multiple news...

Inside Higher Education reports that candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has sent a...

From the Washington Post: A Government Accountability Office report finds that the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program is "being...

Inside Higher Education is reporting today about how much closed school discharges -- through which students who attended postsecondary...

This past Friday ahead of Labor Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) released its anticipated rewrite of the Borrower...

Inside Higher Education reports that a new poll from the Pew Research Center shows partisan differences in people's views about whether...

Inside Higher Education reports that the JOBS Act, a bill that would provide Pell Grant eligibility for short-term (e.g. 8-week)...

Governor Michael Dunleavy (R-AK), whose June 2019 veto of state appropriations for the University of Alaska system would have resulted in...