Ben Unglesbee
Senior Reporter | @Ben_UnglesbeeBen Unglesbee is a senior reporter with Higher Ed Dive. Prior to joining, he covered finance, sourcing and other business topics for Supply Chain Dive, Retail Dive, Capitol Forum and the St. Louis Business Journal. He started his reporting career covering higher education at the Lawrence Journal-World. A native Midwesterner, he holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas and master’s from the Missouri School of Journalism.
431 articles by Ben Unglesbee
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Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes
Dec. 5, 2025 -
S&P: Negative outlook for nonprofit colleges in 2026
Dec. 3, 2025 -
Audit slams shuttered Eastern Gateway Community College for ‘derelict accounting’
Dec. 3, 2025 -
University of Chicago nearly halves its budget deficit to $160M
Dec. 1, 2025 -
How the ‘immortal’ Limestone University collapsed
Dec. 1, 2025 -
New international enrollment dipped this fall, NAFSA survey finds
Nov. 26, 2025 -
Florida public universities plan to cut at least 18 academic programs
Nov. 24, 2025 -
Sonoma State University gets new leader after turbulent year of cuts
Nov. 21, 2025 -
Higher education outlook remains negative for 2026, Moody’s says
Nov. 21, 2025 -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty vote no confidence in chancellor
Nov. 19, 2025 -
Democrats warn feds against selling student loans to private market
Nov. 18, 2025 -
Feds cannot withhold funding from UC system amid lawsuit, judge rules
Nov. 17, 2025 -
Sterling College in Vermont to close
Nov. 14, 2025 -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln leader reduces program cuts from 6 to 4
Nov. 12, 2025 -
Big university endowments grew 11.5% in FY25, TIFF says
Nov. 10, 2025 -
Net tuition rises at colleges, but costs are far below their peaks
Nov. 7, 2025 -
Trinity Christian College to close at the end of the academic year
Nov. 5, 2025 -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln committee opposes most academic program cuts
Nov. 5, 2025 -
Chegg slashes nearly half of its workforce as AI eats into its business
Oct. 29, 2025 -
New College of Florida says it will ‘happily be the first’ to sign Trump’s higher ed compact
Oct. 28, 2025 -
Private New York colleges get $50M in state financing for capital projects
Oct. 27, 2025 -
Columbia University’s operating income plunges by nearly two-thirds
Oct. 24, 2025 -
Michigan State University lays off 99 employees
Oct. 23, 2025 -
University of Northern Colorado plans to lay off 50 employees
Oct. 23, 2025 -
Tracking the Trump administration’s deals with colleges
Oct. 22, 2025