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.
President Trump's calls for reduced federal spending threaten to saddle states with more obligations. This could reduce discretionary spending on higher education, according to one expert from SHEEO.
Yale and Cornell are among the universities cautioning foreign students against international travel, while students from mixed-status families have new concerns about their FAFSA data.
About half of all surveyed private colleges and universities said their incoming class was "more difficult" to fill, and 44% reported a smaller incoming class, according to a survey from NAICU.
With the Department of Justice suing Georgia Tech over data security lapses, other institutions must prepare for a new Department of Education rule that could impose stringent cybersecurity standards on personal and sensitive data.
A government watchdog group found four million out of 5.4 million call center inquiries went unanswered during the first five months of the rollout, among other mistakes.
