Higher Education Trends: Key Insights & Analysis

SS Higher Education Trends

Ohio and Kentucky enact laws banning DEI at public colleges

Conservative lawmakers in both states successfully pushed through the bills after failed attempts in previous years.

By SS Apr 1, 2025

6 higher education experts reflect on COVID’s sectorwide influence

This month marked the five-year anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring COVID-19 a global pandemic.

By SS Mar 30, 2025

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.

By SS 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.