SS Higher Education Trends

AFT sues Education Department over anti-DEI guidance

The union alleged that the agency's recent guidance barring colleges from considering race in any of their programs and policies is unconstitutional.

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Penn State will close some campuses amid enrollment decline, president says

Neeli Bendapudi said the university will review a dozen of its commonwealth campuses to determine which will stay open and which will close.

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Liberty University must face former trans worker’s discrimination claim, judge rules

"Religious institutions cannot discriminate on the basis of sex, even if motivated by religion," the judge wrote.

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Trump’s anti-DEI orders for colleges and others paused in part

The ruling said plaintiffs were likely to succeed in their arguments that the directives undermined free speech and were unconstitutionally vague. 

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