Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Kentucky’s performance-based funding regulations are unconstitutional because of their reliance on race, Russell Coleman, the state’s attorney general, said in an opinion issued Thursday. Coleman, a Republican, said the state is using “race-exclusive terms” to…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: An increase in state appropriations can bolster graduation rates at public four-year colleges, especially among Black and Latinx students, concludes a peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Education Finance. A 10% increase in state appropriations…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Wright State University, in Ohio, immediately suspended enrollment into almost three dozen programs as part of its review of academic offerings. The public institution announced plans last week to deactivate the 34 associate, bachelor’s and…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Community college enrollment among Black, White and Asian students increases when state governments distribute higher education funding through a hybrid model based on both previous allocations and on enrollment and performance-based incentives, a recent study…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The University of California and California State University systems announced Wednesday they will both extend their enrollment commitment deadline in light of delays related to the Federal Application for Free Student Aid. Both public college…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Alabama lawmakers filed a bill Tuesday that would replace the administrator of a loan program set up to help the financially struggling Birmingham-Southern College after the official denied the private institution’s application last year for…
Listen to the article 8 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Higher education has become central to conversations about diversity, debt, hiring and the workforce. This year, colleges can expect a flurry of state bills and executive orders that will address these topics and potentially reshape how the…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A federal judge tossed out a potential class-action lawsuit last week that accused Florida of discriminating against Florida A&M University by underfunding the historically Black institution. The lawsuit, brought by students at Florida A&M, accused…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Pennsylvania State University would cut nearly $100 million from its fiscal year 2026 budget under a new proposal announced Monday. Over the next 18 months, university leaders will decide which units will be affected and…
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The California State University system and a union representing about 29,000 of its employees reached a tentative agreement late Monday night, ending one of the biggest higher education strikes in U.S. history. The deal would…