In an interview with Inside Higher Ed, Ethan Pollack, a senior director at Jobs for the Future, discusses how these loans work and why they might help address today’s challenges.
Alan Garber talked about the university’s legal fight with the federal government—and its implications for higher ed and the nation—in an interview at an event in D.C. Thursday.
By Josh Moody
24 July
In a survey, administrators said vague, AI-written appeal letters can be burdensome because they lead to more back-and-forth between families and the financial aid office.
By Johanna Alonso
23 July
Border-surveillance researcher Iván Chaar López received a near-unanimous recommendation from faculty and outstanding external support letters. Still, he was denied tenure without explanation.
By Emma Whitford
22 July
The ruling limits the Trump administration’s power to cancel research and other funding based on the Office of Management and Budget’s termination clause. OMB’s proposed rule may change that.
By Ryan Quinn
21 July
Faculty at Wenzhou-Kean have accused their employer of obfuscatory employment agreements, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation and lack of shared governance. University officials dispute the charges.
Study analysing submissions to elite titles finds scholars based in China, or who have Chinese-sounding names, struggle to get work past ‘gatekeepers’
International students previously could stay as long as their program lasted. The Trump administration is ending that 1978 policy.
By Johanna Alonso
16 July
Chief financial officers may be cautiously optimistic about the near-term financial outlook after a volatile year, but they also want structural change—now. Do they have the tools and buy-in to make it happen?
A year after the University of Virginia’s president was ousted amid anti-DEI attacks, his ‘apolitical’ successor Scott Beardsley says institutional neutrality does not diminish the institution’s commitment to upholding free speech
