While Democrat Hillary Clinton made higher ed policy a core element of her campaign with a proposal to make public higher education debt-free, and then tuition-free for most students, the Republican candidate was largely silent until an Oct. 13 speech in Cincinnati, when he made remarks criticizing unaffordable student loan debt, “tremendous bloat” in campus administrations and large university endowments. But his plans remained vague. After a surprising election night win, it’s no more clear what exactly his higher education agenda will consist of. But policy analysts say Trump is likely to act in at least a handful of areas over which Democrats and Republicans have sparred — and particularly areas in which the change in administration provides opportunities for agencies under new leadership to roll back initiatives started by their predecessors.

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by Andrew Kreighbaum and Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed.

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