Higher Education Trends: Key Insights & Analysis
SS Higher Education Trends
Week in review: Cuts at Johns Hopkins, PennWest and St. Louis University
We’re rounding up recent stories, from two states teaming up to create three-year bachelor’s degrees to policy and leadership developments out of Florida.
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Jul 8, 2026
Spelman College, Notre Dame of Maryland get new presidents
June brought leadership turnover to several colleges and turmoil to New Mexico Highlands University following the contentious firing of its president.
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Jul 8, 2026
Moody’s downgrades Brown University’s outlook to negative
The credit ratings agency primarily cited the Ivy League institution’s “already thin operating performance” that could continue for several years.
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Jul 8, 2026
Florida’s Stop WOKE act struck down for colleges on appeal
Tuesday’s ruling called the state’s attempt to limit classroom discussion "a breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse."
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Jul 8, 2026