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    College completion rate holds steady above 61%

    Earning college credit in high school made students more likely to graduate within six years, per the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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    Audit slams shuttered Eastern Gateway Community College for ‘derelict accounting’

    A state-issued report questioned millions in spending and detailed voluminous recordkeeping and process issues in the troubled Ohio college’s final years.

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    Louisiana State University splits president-chancellor role

    We’re rounding up a selection of November’s most significant college leadership changes, from Alaska to Pennsylvania. 

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    University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M

    Revenue growth outpaced cost increases as the private nonprofit aims for a balanced budget by the decade’s end.

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    What’s in Northwestern University’s deal with the Trump administration?

    The Illinois institution agreed to pay the federal government $75 million over three years and make key policy changes to have research funding restored.

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    Education Department outsourcing is unlawful, amended lawsuit alleges

    The agency said the move is meant to improve efficiencies for higher education and K-12 funding and services.

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    How the ‘immortal’ Limestone University collapsed

    The South Carolina college weathered tough financial times over the course of its life. In April, it made its last play to stay open — but it wasn’t enough.

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    Tracking the Trump administration’s deals with colleges

    Northwestern University agreed to pay $75 million over three years and make key policy changes to restore roughly $790 million in federal research funding. 

    Updated Dec. 2, 2025
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    Education Department seeks delay in landmark borrower defense settlement

    The agency said it needs more time to decide claims for nearly 200,000 borrowers who were promised decisions by January — or automatic relief. 

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    Chinese students fueled graduate program growth in US, study finds

    American colleges benefited economically from an influx of Chinese students coming to the country to pursue master’s degrees, a working paper found.

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    New international enrollment dipped this fall, NAFSA survey finds

    The poll is the second released this month to show significant declines, especially in new foreign graduate students coming to the U.S.

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    Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs

    The eliminations are part of a regular review of degree productivity based on graduate numbers. The latest review found 214 underperforming programs.

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    Are young college graduates losing an edge in the job market?

    College graduates ages 22 to 27 are now spending more time looking for a job than those with only a high school diploma, according to a new analysis.

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    Texas A&M committee sides with professor fired amid conservative furor

    The interim leader of the public university will review the nonbinding report and make "a decision in the coming days or weeks," a spokesperson said.

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    EEOC asks court to force Penn response in antisemitism probe

    The Ivy League institution allegedly failed to comply with a September deadline to produce requested information, a claim denied by a university spokesperson.

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    DOJ sues California over in-state tuition for undocumented students

    The lawsuit is the sixth the agency has filed under the Trump administration over state laws waiving out-of-state tuition for eligible undocumented students.

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    Sonoma State University gets new leader after turbulent year of cuts

    Cal State veteran Michael Spagna is set to take over the institution in January following widely opposed budget cuts and amid ongoing enrollment troubles. 

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    Higher education outlook remains negative for 2026, Moody’s says

    Enrollment, political and cost pressures abound and will stick around in the new year, analysts said in a recent report.

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    University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty vote no confidence in chancellor

    The vote follows a contentious plan by the public university’s leader to slash four programs as part of an effort to reduce spending by $27.5 million.

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    St. Augustine’s expresses interest in Trump compact — with big caveats

    The North Carolina college said it wants to “participate in and help shape” the deal, in part to get "mission-sensitive accommodations" for HBCUs like itself.

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    MacKenzie Scott’s recent college gifts top $860M. See who got funding.

    Bay Mills Community College and Texas A&M University-Kingsville are among the latest institutions to receive donations from the philanthropist. 

    Updated Dec. 3, 2025
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    SUNY enrollment grew 2.9% in fall 2025, continuing upward trend

    The system's 30 community colleges saw a 5% headcount jump, which New York Gov. Kathy Hochul in part attributed to a new free college initiative.

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    Education Department outsources program management to other agencies

    Interagency agreements will shift management of six department programs, including certain grants for higher education institutions, to other agencies.

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    Feds cannot withhold funding from UC system amid lawsuit, judge rules

    The Trump administration has routinely used civil rights probes to force colleges “to change their ideological tune,” U.S. District Judge Rita Lin wrote.

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    Democrats warn feds against selling student loans to private market

    Over 40 congressional lawmakers told Trump administration officials that transferring debt ownership could strip borrowers of their protections.