Ryan Quinn

Hegseth is Waging War on Colleges. His Targets Are Unclear. The defense secretary’s memos and X videos have left a muddied picture of which programs are being canceled at which institutions and for what reasons.

Some of the institutions where fellowships were canceled—as well as those listed as potential replacements—never received notification from the Pentagon, these universities told Inside Higher Ed. It’s unclear if any did.
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Residency App Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion Application rates to medical residency programs fell on average in states that passed new abortion restrictions after the overturning of Roe v. Wade compared to states that didn’t, a new scientific pa...

Medical Residency Application Rates Fell in States That Restricted Abortion
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Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School

Thousands in Iran Attend Burial of Children Killed in Bombing of School www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/w...

Clearinghouse Severs Relationship With Student Voting Study Since 2013, researchers from Tufts University have studied college students’ voting habits using data provided by the National Student Clearinghouse. Now, the clearinghouse is pulling out of the partn...

From Johanna Alonso: Under Pressure, Clearinghouse Severs Relationship With Student Voting Study
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Middle East U.S. Campuses Shutter; Students Unable to Return Iran’s retaliation across the Middle East against ongoing U.S. and Israeli bombings has disrupted higher ed in previously calm Gulf states.

U.S. Campuses in Middle East Shutter; Students, Employees Unable to Fly Back
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US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says The Pentagon played down concerns on Monday that the U.S. attack on Iran risked plunging the United States into a new, open-ended conflict in the Middle ​East, even as officials declined to offer a timeline and cautioned they expected more U.S. casualties.

US not veering into a new, endless war, Pentagon says reut.rs/4ct4fAd

UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy Two weeks after introducing a policy that allowed administrators to secretly record faculty members during class, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill chancellor Lee Roberts told faculty he wou...

From @emmawhitford.bsky.social UNC Chancellor Scraps Secret Recording Policy
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ED Releases Recommendations to Reimagine IES The Education Department has released recommendations on “reimagining” the Institute of Education Sciences, the central federal education data collection and research funding agency, which the Trump a...

ED Releases Recommendations to Reimagine IES
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The War on Student Speech Following disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in spring 2024, the federal government, state lawmakers and college officials have imposed sweeping restrictions on student speech, resulting in a wave of...

I finally got time this weekend to read Josh Moody's great story on the war against student free speech (including student journalism). You should read it, too:
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OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash

OpenAI Reaches A.I. Agreement With Defense Dept. After Anthropic Clash www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

Iran Says Dozens Killed in Strike on School

Awful
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The moment many of us in #edresearch have been waiting for...

Reimagining the Institute of Education Sciences has been released.

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UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Is—and Isn’t The university system dropped proposed language saying teaching “clearly unrelated to the course description” wouldn’t be protected. The AAUP remained opposed.

UNC Board OKs Definition of What Academic Freedom Is, and Isn’t
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ED’s DEI Guidance Is Dead, but Trump’s Crackdown Isn’t Diversity advocates say the courts have been clear—Trump has no justification to ban DEI. But other legal experts say the administration has plenty of other tools it can use to accomplish the same goa...

The Dear Colleague letter, a key tool in Trump’s attack on DEI, had been blocked for months. Then, ED dropped its appeal, killing the policy for good.

Some DEI advocates declared it a “major win,” but other legal experts say the war is far from over.

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Journalism job alert: @wired.com is hiring an experienced politics writer. I might be biased, but WIRED is doing some of the best political coverage out there. This is your chance to join our amazing newsroom! condenast.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CondeC...

NSF Plans to Boost Staffing, Halve Grant Solicitations Following last year’s cuts, the chief management officer of the federal research funding agency says its number of employees is “too low.”

NSF Plans to Boost Staffing, Halve Grant Solicitations
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Iowa House passes tuition freeze, continuing education, anti-DEI bills • Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa House lawmakers debated freezing tuition, restricting the Iowa Tuition Grant program and more Tuesday afternoon.

Some of the Iowa higher ed legislation has now passed the House, per Capital Dispatch:

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DOJ Sues UC, Alleging 'Hostile Work Environment' for Jews The Justice Department sued the University of California system Tuesday, alleging it has tolerated antisemitism to such an extent that it's created a hostile work environment for Jewish and Israeli em...

DOJ Sues UC System, Alleging ‘Hostile Work Environment’ for Jews at UCLA
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ED Partners With State Dept. to Track College Foreign Funds The partnership is part of a broader effort to dismantle the federal education agency.

The Education Dept. said State will “use its national security and foreign national academic admissions expertise to review and assess the industry’s compliance with the law, share data with the public and federal stakeholders, and identify potential threats.”
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ED Partners With State Dept. to Track College Foreign Funds The partnership is part of a broader effort to dismantle the federal education agency.

ED Partnering With State Dept. to Track Universities’ Foreign Funding
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But it's also true to call them low-earning relative to other degrees... the story gets into the debate about whether earnings are the best measure of value.

Why do you say that?

Indiana Bill Would Use Federal Earnings Test to End Programs Congress’s new earnings test will stop students from receiving federal aid for some programs. A Hoosier State bill goes further, putting those degrees on the chopping block.

U.S. Plans to Stop Funding Low-Earning Degrees. Indiana May Just End Them.
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Every day I wake up and deal with people romanticizing the early 2000s and making me feel old

Juicy on the ass

Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been

After Research, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End Tenure Tennessee’s House Higher Ed Subcommittee chair has withdrawn his bill to end tenure in public universities after saying he “stumbled into a little bit of the history” and “got a little deeper than I t...

After Researching Tenure’s History, Tennessee Lawmaker Drops Bill to End It
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NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Head NSF The National Institutes of Health director will become acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and President Trump will nominate the CDC’s former acting director to lead the...

NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Be Nominated NSF Director
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An image of Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger speaking next to an image of former governor Glenn Youngkin speaking.

Richard Bland College Board Removed

Virginia lawmakers rejected seven lingering board picks from former governor Glenn Youngkin, effectively removing the entire Richard Bland College Board of Visitors. https://bit.ly/468i4A4

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science.

By @megomatz.bsky.social

Kansas May Cut Millions From Colleges With “DEI” in Gen Ed The budget bill would also freeze tuition revenue, allow institutions to fire tenured faculty faster and develop plans to eliminate a tenth of positions and expenses from universities’ leadership offi...

Kansas May Withhold Millions From Universities With ‘DEI-CRT’ in Gen Ed
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Germany and England are both top 5 contributors here, and if you add "UK" to England it's almost as much as China.