For years, college students from around the state, specifically Ohio State, have fought back against the GOP-created higher education reform. Students say they want real education, not what Ohio State student Sabrina Estevez calls propaganda. “I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding with what indoctrination actually is,” Estevez said. In 2025, Senate Finance chair Jerry […]
States are advancing new mandates that would increase oversight of public universities, targeting admissions, curriculum, tenure and accreditation. The measures could significantly change how campuses operate.
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 Donald Trump moved this week to hold colleges and universities accountable for anti-Semitism in the wake of protests against Israel’s actions in the Gaza war. In related actions targeting K12, he also signed executive orders to expand school vouchers and end what he calls “indoctrination” in instruction. The following article is a part of […]
Republicans have become increasingly critical of "liberal indoctrination" on campus and are pitching big ideas about reforming how colleges work. But some of those proposals would likely require more government intervention, not less.
School leaders who wish to comply with new regulations while simultaneously ensuring they're appealing to diverse student bodies are parrying legislative restrictions with a simple yet sly strategy: rebranding their DEI offices.
As colleges and universities across Florida and Texas are forced to shudder their DEI offices, higher education leaders in other states whose lawmakers threaten to propose similar legislation are voicing their opposition—before it becomes too late.
While 20 states this year are in the middle of their biennial cycle, the remaining will fight to pass favorable budgets that can alleviate the challenges present among colleges and universities today.
Some policy pushes have enjoyed bipartisan support, such as addressing hazing on college campuses. Others, however, have been more aligned across political lines, like dismantling DEI.
