Colleges will no longer be off limits for immigration enforcement operations under a directive announced by the new Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday. The directive ends the practice of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection agents avoiding “sensitive” areas — including elementary and secondary schools, colleges, hospitals and churches — for enforcement actions… Trump and some Republican supporters have said undocumented immigrants are overwhelming school systems. Recent research, however, has shown that newcomer students instead bring fiscal and academic benefits to school systems.
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by Kara Arundel, Higher Ed Dive.
Posted: January 21st, 2025, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
As part of a plan to reduce the overall Federal budget, Republican lawmakers have created a “menu” of options and what the savings could bring. For higher education and financial aid, Republicans have proposed a series of budget cuts and reforms to higher education funding. The measures focus on reducing costs associated with federal student loans, narrowing forgiveness programs, and holding colleges accountable for outcomes. While proponents argue these changes will streamline programs and curb spending, critics warn they could limit college access and affordability for millions of Americans.
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by Robert Farrington, The College Investor.
Posted: January 20th, 2025, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
NPR spoke with more than a dozen educators, researchers, advocates and policy experts, including two former U.S. secretaries of education, to find out how they would grade Biden’s Education Department. The results varied depending on the politics of the evaluator, with conservatives being harsher in their assessments. But there was some agreement: for example, that Biden’s greatest success was in guiding schools out of the COVID-19 era. Most observers also agreed that, when it comes to education overall, Biden will most likely be remembered for a pair of high-profile failures: the FAFSA rollout and his unkept promise to provide broad student loan forgiveness.
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by Cory Turner , NPR.
Posted: January 16th, 2025, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Leaders of the University of California and California State University systems are warning a proposed budget cut of almost 8% for next year could lead to larger class sizes, fewer course offerings and staff reductions unless it is reversed. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s January budget proposal would technically defer the funding for two years.
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by Suzanne Potter, Public News Service.
Posted: January 13th, 2025, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The University of California and California State University are facing nearly an 8% reduction to their state funding for 2025-26 under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal unveiled Friday, raising concerns about the impact on their campuses. Top officials at both of the state’s public university systems immediately warned that the cuts, which were telegraphed in last year’s budget agreement, would result in larger class sizes and fewer available courses. They hope the Legislature will restore some of those funds before the budget is finalized this summer. UC, which has 10 campuses, would see a decline of $396.6 million in funding while the 23-campus CSU would lose $375.2 million under the governor’s proposal for next year. Newsom also plans to defer previously promised budget increases of 5% — part of his multiyear compact agreements with the systems — until 2027-28.
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by Michael Burke And Amy DiPierro, EdSource.
Posted: January 10th, 2025, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
At USC, a majority of the 2,500 adjunct, part-time and full-time non-tenure track faculty last week said they had signed union authorization cards and filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for an election, with hopes that votes will be certified before Inauguration Day. In Burbank, nearly 200 faculty members at the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus voted this month to form a union. At the California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, a majority of the more than 600 full-time and part-time faculty and staff have signed union authorization cards, though there has not yet been an election. “We don’t know what Trump is going to do,” said Nadia Suryawinata, a union leader at Caltech in Pasadena, where 2,000 graduate student workers and postdoctoral scholars formed a union in February and overwhelmingly voted this month to authorize their leadership to call a strike — a tactic to speed up negotiations to secure a contract.
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by Jaweed Kaleem, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: December 16th, 2024, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Nearly half of Muslim students in 87 colleges and universities across California experienced harassment or discrimination at school, according to a new report… “Rather than feeling safe and supported, many have faced suppression of their free speech and have been penalized for opposing Israel’s actions and advocating for Palestinian rights,” officials said. “Unfortunately, this issue is not new, and many universities, administrators, and law enforcement have failed to offer the necessary support, leaving students feeling targeted and isolated.”
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by Victoria Ivie and Allyson Vergara , The Orange County Register.
Posted: November 19th, 2024, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
McMahon is a professional wrestling magnate who ran two unsuccessful campaigns for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. She was selected by Trump to lead the SBA during his first presidency. During her two years in that role, McMahon stayed out of the headlines, steering clear of the churn of controversies that were a feature of Trump’s first term in office. She stepped down in 2019 to run the Trump-aligned super PAC America First Action and has remained in Trump’s close orbit.
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by Cory Turner and Jonaki Mehta, NPR.
Posted: November 19th, 2024, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
Donald Trump hates the state of higher education in the US so much that he wants to start a new online university that will dole out bachelor’s degrees free of charge to challenge existing colleges. Trump has also vowed to “deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again”. He wants to dramatically alter the accreditation process that ensures colleges meet set standards, opening the door for programs that currently do not. These are just a few of Trump’s ideas for overhauling colleges and universities – frequent targets of rightwing campaigns that view them as incubators for leftist ideology. Many of Trump’s higher ed proposals involve driving out these perceived ideas.
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by Rachel Leingang, The Guardian.
Posted: November 18th, 2024, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
The data from the Institute of International Education said that more than 1.1 million foreign students — over half of whom are Chinese or Indian nationals — were in the U.S. for undergraduate, graduate or post-graduation work training programs in 2023-24, a 7% year-to-year increase.
The largest share of international students attended institutions in California, the report said, where USC, UC Berkeley, UC San Diego and UCLA were the biggest draws…
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by Jaweed Kaleem, The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: November 17th, 2024, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.
