Ben Unglesbee
Senior Reporter | @Ben_UnglesbeeBen Unglesbee has been a senior reporter with Higher Ed Dive since early 2024. He covers institutional finance, operations, closures, mergers and higher ed disruption. Ben started his career covering higher ed at the local level for the Lawrence Journal-World, and he has worked as a business reporter for Supply Chain Dive, Retail Dive, Capitol Forum and the St. Louis Business Journal. His stories have won awards with the Software & Information Industry Association, American Society of Business Publication Editors, Missouri Press Association, Kansas Press Association, and Kansas City Press Club. Get in touch: [email protected]
649 articles by Ben Unglesbee
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Baylor stares down $30M deficit after undergraduate enrollment dip
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Penn State wrestles with $124M budget hole
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Boston University misses revenue projections by $42M
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Week in review: More college president turnover
Nov. 9, 2026 -
University of Maine offers buyouts to 158 faculty members as it cuts budget
Nov. 6, 2026 -
Iowa public universities exceed revenue projections but brace for enrollment drop
Nov. 5, 2026 -
AAC&U president leaves Coalition for the Common Good board
Nov. 4, 2026 -
New College of Florida eyes $47.5M in new loans
Nov. 3, 2026 -
A look at the eye-popping endowment gains at Harvard, WashU, Stanford and beyond
Nov. 2, 2026 -
Undergraduate enrollment inched up this fall, while master’s dips 3.7%
Oct. 29, 2026 -
Louisiana’s public colleges face $4B deferred maintenance backlog
Oct. 26, 2026 -
Syracuse University plans review of administrative and executive staff
Oct. 23, 2026 -
University of Maine eyes $6M in budget cuts, including layoffs
Oct. 23, 2026 -
Undergraduate certificates are most at risk of failing new earnings test
Oct. 22, 2026 -
Ohio court blocks dissolution of Antioch University’s board
Oct. 21, 2026 -
Anna Maria College cancels campus bankruptcy auction over lack of bids
Oct. 20, 2026 -
Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important
Oct. 20, 2026 -
Harvard logs $100M surplus despite 20% drop in federal research money
Oct. 16, 2026 -
Judge declines to block Trump’s March anti-DEI order for federal contractors
Oct. 15, 2026 -
Minnesota State board approves plan to redirect funding to struggling colleges
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Penn State looks to cut 47 undergraduate degrees
Oct. 13, 2026 -
More students are ruling out colleges based on politics, poll finds
Oct. 13, 2026 -
Trump administration investigates 9 universities over visa fraud claims
Oct. 9, 2026 -
Stockton University plans 21 faculty and staff layoffs, sparking union backlash
Oct. 8, 2026 -
AAUP gets order over Jewish employee records at Penn ‘off the books’
Oct. 7, 2026
