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.
418 articles by Ben Unglesbee
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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 -
‘Nothing less than government control’: Higher ed responds to Trump’s compact
Oct. 20, 2025 -
Harvard’s operations lost $112.6M in FY25 amid Trump’s pressure campaign
Oct. 17, 2025 -
Elon University AAUP demands larger faculty role in Queens University combination
Oct. 17, 2025 -
Court temporarily blocks overnight ban on expression at University of Texas System
Oct. 16, 2025 -
Republican lawmakers ask McMahon to restore funding for Hispanic-serving colleges
Oct. 15, 2025 -
Antioch University’s president talks leadership and democratic education in uncertain times
Oct. 14, 2025 -
California governor signs Cal State direct admissions program into law
Oct. 10, 2025 -
Carnegie Mellon lays off 75 employees at engineering institute amid federal funding shifts
Oct. 10, 2025 -
University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty raise alarms about program cuts
Oct. 8, 2025 -
DePaul University weighs budget measures amid cratering international enrollment
Oct. 6, 2025 -
Newsom vows to pull state funding from California colleges that sign Trump’s compact
Oct. 3, 2025 -
New Jersey City University and Kean University sign official deal to merge
Oct. 3, 2025 -
Washington University lays off over 300 employees
Oct. 2, 2025