SS Higher Education Trends
This week in 5 numbers: University of Pennsylvania hit with $175M in stop-work orders
We’re rounding up recent stories, from another Ivy League college's federal funding woes to calls to increase the endowment taxes wealthy colleges pay.
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Mar 29, 2025
‘Moving in the right direction’: The push by wealthy institutions to enroll more low-income students
Pell Grant recipients at colleges with the largest endowments increased nearly 5 percentage points since 2007, per a recent Brookings Institution analysis.
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Mar 29, 2025
University of Michigan scraps multimillion dollar DEI investment
The move shuttered the public flagship’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Office for Health Equity and Inclusion, effective immediately.
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Mar 29, 2025
University of New Orleans should rejoin LSU system, state board says
The public institution has been deteriorating financially since Hurricane Katrina hit the city two decades ago.
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Mar 29, 2025