SS Higher Education Trends
This week in 5 numbers: Education Department adds detail to DEI guidance
We’re rounding up recent stories, from one agency appearing to ease recent guidance to a Christian college calling off a merger.
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Mar 8, 2025
Trump administration cancels $400M of Columbia’s grants and contracts amid antisemitism probe
The cancellation comes only four days after the probe into the Ivy League institution was announced.
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Mar 8, 2025
Saint Augustine’s University loses appeal to keep accreditation
Officials at the historically Black college are now contesting the decision to strip its accreditation via arbitration — a process it's been through before.
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Mar 8, 2025
DOL files fresh appeal of a Texas decision vacating its new overtime rule
It’s now the second such filing by the agency with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Mar 8, 2025