Trump expands travel bans and restrictions to 39 countries

Individuals in Nigeria — one of the countries sending the most foreign students to the U.S. — will not be able to receive student visas beginning Jan. 1.

By Laura Spitalniak • Dec. 17, 2025

Alabama faculty and students file appeal to block anti-DEI law

They contend the 2024 statute violates their First Amendment rights and is impermissibly vague about what speech it prohibits.

By Laura Spitalniak • Dec. 17, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence

As AI continues its forward march in education and the workplace, colleges are grapplling with how best to incorporate the emerging technology into admissions, courrsework and elsewhere

By Higher Ed Dive staff

Education Department recognizes Grand Canyon University as a nonprofit

The move ends a six-year spat over the institution’s deep financial and operational ties to Grand Canyon Education, a for-profit services provider.

By Ben Unglesbee • Dec. 15, 2025

What’s at stake as the Trump administration targets Harvard’s patents?

Legal experts are watching whether the federal government will take the unprecedented step of seizing patents from federally funded research. 

By David Weisenfeld • Dec. 15, 2025

Federal judge denies request for 18-month delay in landmark borrower defense settlement

The U.S. Department of Education wanted more time to decide cases for borrowers promised decisions or automatic relief by the end of January.

By Natalie Schwartz • Dec. 12, 2025

DeSantis wants to give USF’s Sarasota campus to New College of Florida

The Florida governor's budget proposal would expand the liberal arts college, which he has sought to make a conservative blueprint for higher education.

By Ben Unglesbee • Dec. 12, 2025

Wisconsin public universities could start shedding programs more rapidly

A committee developed a new metric based on enrollment that could increase the number of degrees that get flagged for review. 

By Ben Unglesbee • Dec. 10, 2025

Pell Grant program faces up to $11B annual budget shortfall

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimated that expanding eligibility for the grants to short-term programs will add major new costs. 

By Natalie Schwartz • Dec. 10, 2025

Education Department adds ‘lower earnings’ warning to FAFSA

The agency will warn students when they’ve indicated interest in a college whose graduates have relatively low incomes.

By Natalie Schwartz • Dec. 8, 2025

Education Department outlines potential Workforce Pell regulations

A draft of regulatory language shares how programs as short as eight weeks could begin qualifying and remain eligible for Pell Grants.

By Natalie Schwartz • Dec. 5, 2025

Yale expects layoffs as leaders brace for $300M in endowment taxes

The Ivy League institution’s tax bill starting next year will be higher than what it spends on student aid, university officials said.

By Ben Unglesbee • Dec. 5, 2025

What would education’s omission as a ‘professional degree’ mean?

Without that designation, graduate or doctoral students would be limited to borrowing $100,000 for their programs. 

By Anna Merod • Dec. 5, 2025

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Explore how digital tools are transforming accessibility and engagement in today’s evolving higher ed landscape.

By Higher Ed Dive's studioID • Dec. 4, 2025

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.

By Kara Arundel • Dec. 2, 2025

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.

By Natalie Schwartz • Dec. 1, 2025

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. 

By Natalie Schwartz • Nov. 26, 2025

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.

By Ben Unglesbee • Nov. 26, 2025

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.

By Laura Spitalniak • Nov. 25, 2025

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.

By Ryan Golden • Nov. 25, 2025

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.

By Ben Unglesbee • Nov. 21, 2025

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.

By Laura Spitalniak • Nov. 20, 2025

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.

By Ben Unglesbee • Nov. 18, 2025

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.

By Kara Arundel • Nov. 18, 2025

Texas v. Texas: State AG sues higher ed board over work-study programs

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton called the state law requiring employers to offer students nonsectarian work unconstitutional and "anti-Christian."

By Laura Spitalniak • Nov. 18, 2025

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.

By Ben Unglesbee • Nov. 17, 2025