The Department of Education is forming a negotiated rulemaking committee to write new accrediting regulations and make it easier for new accreditors to become approved.

The Trump administration is reportedly working on a second version of its “Compact For Academic Excellence in Higher ...

US higher education faces a pivotal year in court as lawsuits challenging Trump administration policies continue into 2026.

Lawmakers should decouple accreditation from federal financing, lower caps on student lending, phase out the Parent PLUS program, and wind down loan forgiveness. Reforms proposed by the Trump ...

Harvard’s lawsuit fighting the Trump administration’s freeze on research grants is one that every higher education institution should join.

Late last year, the U.S. Department of Education declared it would reroute tens of millions of dollars that Congress had ...

The Hechinger Report reports on significant changes in education under the Trump administration, focusing on cuts to federal ...

As President Donald Trump works to reshape America’s colleges and universities, the man he wants overseeing higher education has deep ties to an industry often in the Department of Education’s ...

The Trump administration’s milestone settlement with Columbia promises to bring stability to a university in crisis. It also delivers a crucial win to President Donald Trump in his campaign to reshape ...

“The administration is trying to shut down dissent,” said Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor at Brown ...

The Trump administration's unprecedented control over American universities has led to sweeping changes in rules, culture, and finances, affecting institutions across the nation with lasting ...

The prescribed medication will come too late for some victims, but others may yet recover.” While the expansion of ...