Higher Education Policy Minute

Fall 2025, Mondays and Wednesdays 11:20 AM – 12:45 PM (CRN 93888) Instructors: Dr. Nicholas Salter (Psychology) and Dr. Rebecca Natow...

President Biden will announce today that the administration will forgive $10,000 in student loans (and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients)...

Inside Higher Education reports that Title IX regulations have created legalistic procedures on college campuses that have come to...

Student enrollment is on the minds of just about all higher education leaders these days. Inside Higher Education reports that in the...

There has been a lot of talk about whether and how much student loan debt President Joe Biden might be willing to cancel via executive...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced yesterday that it will hear a case regarding race-conscious admissions policies at Harvard University...

Here are some interesting news stories about higher education policy: Inside Higher Education: "Stakeholders argue that there are more...

The U.S. Department of Education announced this morining that it intends to make changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF)...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has revised its policy against granting extensions to Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) who...

There's a lot of news today about COVID and higher education. Here are some headlines: "How Biden's New Vaccination Policy Affects...

On Friday, the U.S. Department of Education released a notice of the schedule and topics of this fall's negotiated rulemaking sessions....

Yesterday the federal Department of Education and State Department issued a statement of "commitment to international education." The...

Inside Higher Education reports that a federal judge in Indiana has denied student-plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction...

This week, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) will hold a series of virtual public hearings ahead of anticipated negotiated rulemaking...

Inside Higher Education reports that the three federal stimulus bills passed by Congress since Spring 2020 have helped to stave off state...

In 2020, following the massive emergency pivot to online teaching affecting colleges and universities across the U.S. due to COVID-19, a...