Higher ed wasn’t a top priority for Donald Trump when he first took office. But now that he and the GOP see attacking elite institutions and regulating colleges as winning political issues, a second term is likely to bring more aggressive policies. Read more

In his search for a job, North Jersey resident and recent college graduate Colin Logsdon sometimes sends out up to a hundred applications a week. Read more

Hefty pay packages and patchy record on declaring financial data should prompt tougher scrutiny of for-profit sector, says critic Read more

Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own Read more

A voter data company that receives private student information from the National Student Clearinghouse as part of a nationwide study on college students’ voting trends is ignoring requests to discuss what it does with the student information. Read more

A recent injunction barred the Education Department from enforcing its new Title IX rule at colleges attended by members of two conservative student groups. Hundreds of colleges across the country are affected. Read more

Five years after arrest in Trump crackdown, Chinese-born Franklin Feng Tao gets vindication – and wants his job back Read more

First post-pandemic study of attainment gap finds pupils from low-income families have fallen further behind richer peers except in London Read more

The Yale Law School graduate has used sharp criticism of elite higher ed to help establish his MAGA bona fides and build a national brand. Read more

Rising number of applicants from abroad secure visas but don’t show up at campuses Read more