SS Higher Education Trends

Want to measure how much college graduates make? Timing matters.

Associate and bachelor’s degree holders have similar earnings right after graduation, but the differences widen over time, research finds. 

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‘Another twisting of civil rights law’: Free speech group pans Education Department’s DEI guidance

The guidance threatens to pull federal funding from colleges that consider race in any of their programs and policies — not just admissions.

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Court declines to block DOGE from accessing Education Department data

U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, said the student group failed to show it faced “irreparable harm” without emergency relief. 

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This week in 5 numbers: Court temporarily blocks NIH funding cuts

We’re rounding up recent stories, from a court ruling affecting a new National Institutes of Health policy to an increase in colleges with the coveted R1 status.

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