Student loans and Pell Grants are safe but Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says she has started the process of shutting down the Department of Education.
With Senate Bill 1, the state would ban universities from taking a stand on "controversial beliefs"—including climate change, immigration, gay marriage, and abortion.
Tribal colleges and universities say it's illegal to withhold financial support from them. Their funding is protected by treaties and other legal obligations on the federal government.
Some 60 colleges and universities now face "enforcement actions" over claims of campus antisemitism, the U.S. Department of Education warned just a few days after yanking $400 million in grants from Columbia University over alleged civil rights infractions.
Roxbury Community College enlisted top students to develop an AI-driven solution for improving engagement with online platforms. Their efforts led to its first hackathon, aimed at boosting digital literacy and academic performance for its largely low-income, minority student body.
Graduating high schoolers are 99% certain that a foray into higher education is going to work out but several factors contribute to high levels of stress during the college application process.
