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Public trust in higher education rebounded slightly in the last year but remains at historic lows. And presidents know it: According to Inside Higher Ed’s 2026…

Year one of Trump 2.0 brought a flurry of policy changes as the federal government sought to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices; restrict the flow…

Our reporter Charlie Savage describes the efforts by President Trump’s allies to avoid labeling the war in Iran as a war, and details how Congress came…

new video loaded: Former Presidents Speak at Jesse Jackson’s MemorialtranscriptBacktranscriptFormer Presidents Speak at Jesse Jackson’s MemorialBarack Obama, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Bill Clinton were among…

A judge dismissed former Seton Hall University president Joseph Nyre’s lawsuit against his former employer late last week, ending at least part of a two-year legal…

I’ve spent much of my career working as a college administrator. I’ve held senior roles, carried expansive portfolios, and had titles that critics of higher education…

Last year turned out to be a tumultuous one for higher education, with institutions buffeted by the Trump administration’s sweeping federal research cuts, unprecedented intrusion into…

Amherst College, where I teach, recently changed the designation of its senior administrators, who were formerly called “chiefs,” as in chief financial officer, to “vice presidents.”…

Nothing speaks more eloquently of the disempowering of the US Congress under Donald Trump’s second presidency than the brazenly audacious arrest of Venezuela’s leader, Nicolás Maduro…

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