By Andrew Kreighbaum and Doug Lederman.Donald Trump provided relatively few clues to what he might do as president, but he'll probably try to reverse some of President Obama's priorities, rolling back regulations, creating new political opening for for-profit colleges and curtailing collective bargaining rights. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Potential revisions to the OMB's standards for collecting data on race and ethnicity draw interest from medical educators and anthropologists. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Students are more likely to drop out of college if they lose even small amounts of financial aid -- regardless of their grade point average -- according to a study from the Education Advisory Board, a research and consulting firm based in Washington. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. The Education Department said Friday it would restore Pell Grant eligibility for students whose education was interrupted by the closure of their institutions. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Department releases regulations to protect student borrowers against fraudulent and abusive institutions. Although rules are aimed at for-profit colleges, critics say they could have repercussions for all colleges. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. More than 50 national and state organizations signed a letter to the White House urging changes to the complaint system for student loan borrowers launched over the summer. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Education Secretary John King announced a new program Monday through the office of Federal Student Aid that will pair loan guarantee agencies with minority-serving institutions to improve graduation, retention and cohort default rates at no cost to those colleges and universities. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Federal regulators indefinitely stay IRS enforcement ruling that subsidized health insurance plans for graduate students violated provisions of Affordable Care Act. Read more...
By Andrew Kreighbaum. Democrats, higher education groups and consumer advocates renew their push for Congress to restore year-round Pell Grants and strengthen the program during a lame-duck session after the election. Read more...
By Colleen Flaherty. Current research funding trends discourage innovative thinking, according to a new essay in a special issue of Nature. The essay, written by four early-career scientists who have been named by the World Economic Forum as part of a group of scientists under the age of 40 who “play a transformational role in integrating scientific knowledge into society for the public good,” says that the “scientific enterprise is stuck in a catch-22,” with researchers charged with advancing promising new questions, but receiving “support and credit only for revisiting their past work.” Read more...
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